Book of Abstracts - abiosus

abiosus e.V.
Non-Profit Association for the Advancement of Research on Renewable Raw Materials
6 th Workshop on
Fats and Oils as Renewable
Feedstock for the Chemical
Industry
March 17-19, 2013
Karlsruhe, Germany
in Cooperation with:
Karlsruhe Istitute of Technology (KIT)
German Society for Fat Science (DGF)
German Chemical Society (GDCh), Division of Sustainable Chemistry

Scientific and Organizing Committee
Ursula Biermann, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Michael A. R. Meier, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Jürgen O. Metzger, abiosus e.V. and University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Acknowledgement
Financial Support by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI), BASF – The Chemical
Company and by Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH is gratefully acknowledged.
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Content
Program Lectures 6
Posters 15
Abstracts of lectures 19
Abstracts of posters 55
List of participants 89
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Program
Lectures and Posters
5

Sunday, March 17, 2013
Registration
Registration will be opened from 13:00 - 19:00
15.45 Welcome and Opening
Jürgen O. Metzger, abiosus e.V.
Michael A. R. Meier, Division of Sustainable Chemistry of GDCh and
KIT
16.00 – 18.00 First Session
Chair: Michael A. R. Meier
16.00 – 16.30 Polyurethanes from renewable resources and carbon dioxide (M)
L1
Rolf Mülhaupt, Freiburg Materials Research Center and Institute for
Macromolecular Chemistry, Freiburg, Germany
16.30 – 17.00 Novel high molecular weight vinyl ether polymers based on
plant oils (M)
L2
Samim Alam, Harjyoti Kalita, Satyabrata Samanta, Andrey
Chernykh, Bret J. Chisholm, North Dakota State University, Fargo
(ND), USA
17.00 – 17.30 Protein engineering and application of enzymes in lipid
modification (M)
L3
Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Institute of Biochemistry, Greifswald University,
Germany
17.30 – 18.00 Epicerol ® and the environmental challenges of bio-based
chemistry (M)
L4
Thibaud Caulier, Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
18.00 – 20.30 Poster Session and Opening Mixer.
Posters will be displayed until the end of the workshop
(M)
(D)
Main Lecture 30 min including discussion
Discussion Lecture 20 min including discussion
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Monday, March 18, 2013
9.00 – 10.30 First morning session
Chair: Ursula Biermann
9.00 – 9.30 Metathesis: Commercialization of specialty chemicals from
lipids (M)
L5
Mel Luetkens, Elevance Renewable Science, Woodridge , IL, USA
9.30 – 9.50 News from the isomerizing alkoxycarbonylation (D)
L6 Philipp Roesle 1 , Timo Witt 1 , Florian Stempfle 1 , Josefine T. Christl 1 ,
Ilona Heckler 1 , Gerhard Müller 1 , Lucia Caporaso 2 , Stefan Mecking 1 ,
1
Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany;
2
Department of Chemistry, University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy
9.50 – 10.10 Polyesters and polyamides precursors from natural and waste
oils (D)
L7 Marc R. L. Furst 1 , David J. Cole-Hamilton 1 , Thomas Seidensticker 1 ,
Ronan Le Goff 1 , Catherine H. Botting 1 , Dorothee Quinzler 2 , Stefan
Mecking 2
1 St. Andrews, Scotland, UK; 2 Department of Chemistry, University of
Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
10.10 – 10.30 Access to value-added products via metathesis of fats and terpene
derivatives (D)
L8
Christian Bruneau, Cédric Fischmeister, Antoine Dupé, Hallouma Bilel,
Université de Rennes 1, Sciences Chimiques, Rennes, France
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
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11.00 – 12.50 Second morning session
Chair: George John
11.00 – 11.30 Fatty alcohols from triglycerides via catalytic hydrogenation (M)
L9
Dmitry G. Gusev, Denis Spasyuk, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada
11.30 – 11.50 Fe-catalyzed oxidative cleavage of olefins towards aldehydes
with hydrogen peroxide (M)
L10
Peter Spannring, Pieter C. Bruijnincx, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Bert Klein
Gebbink, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
11.50 – 12.10 The first catalytic Lossen rearrangement: Sustainable access to
fatty acid derived nitrogen containing monomers and polymers
(D)
L11
Oliver Kreye, Sarah Wald, Maike Unverferth, Alexander Prohammer,
Michael A. R. Meier, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
12.10 – 12.30 Regioselective hydrogenation of vegetable oils with Pt/ZSM-5
catalysts (D)
L12
An Philippaerts, Pierre Jacobs, Bert Sels, K.U.Leuven, Heverlee,
Belgium
12.30 – 12.50 Catalyst selection for conversion of fats and oils to renewable
chemical products (D)
L13
Aalbert Zwijnenburg, Johnson Matthey Chemicals GmbH, Emmerich,
Germany
12.50 – 14.00 Lunch break
8

14.00 – 15.30 First afternoon session
Chair: Mel Luetkens
14.00 – 14.30 ADM's Green Chemistry - platform chemicals based on
renewable feedstock (M)
L14
Jürgen Fischer, Paul Bloom,
ADM Research GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
14.30 – 14.50 Isosorbide-based value products (D)
L15
Claudia Stoer, Markus Dierker, Claus Nieendick, Catherine Breffa,
BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
14.50 – 15.10 Polyurethane dispersions based on renewable resource materials
– off to pasture new! (D)
L16
Manfred Diedering, Markus Dimmers, Maria Ebert,
Alberdingk Boley GmbH, Krefeld, Germany
15.10 – 15.30 Development of transformer oils based on renewable raw
materials (D)
L17
Günther Kraft, FUCHS Europe Schmierstoffe, Mannheim, Germany
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
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16.00 – 17.30 Second afternoon session
Chair: Dmitry G. Gusev
16.00 – 16.30 Biorefinery: A sustainable design platform for green surfactants
and soft materials (M)
L18
George John, Department of Chemistry, The City College of the City
University of New York, New York, USA
16.30 – 16.50 Synthesis of fatty ethers: Catalytic reduction of fatty acid
esters (D)
L19
Ursula Biermann, Jürgen O. Metzger, Universität Oldenburg and
abiosus e.V., Oldenburg, Germany
16.50 – 17.10 Additions to unsaturated fatty acid esters: Electrophilic
additions via boron compounds and [2+2]-cycloadditions with
N-chlorosulfonylethenimine to ß-lactams (D)
L20
Hans J. Schäfer, Theodor Lucas, Christian Kalk, Organischchemisches
Institut der Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
17.10 – 17.30 Singlet oxygenation of unsaturated monoglycerides in single-phase
and multiphase systems using hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by
molybdate anions (D)
L21
Hermine HNM NSA Moto, Zephirin MOULOUNGUI, Université de
Toulouse, ENSIACET-INRA-INP Toulouse, Laboratoire de Chimie
Agro-Industrielle, Toulouse, France
19.30 Conference Dinner
Renaissance Karlsruhe Hotel
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
9.00 – 10.40 First morning session
Chair: Jürgen O. Metzger
9.00 – 9.30 Synthesis of biobased building blocks from vegetable oils:
towards platform chemicals (M)
L22
Sylvain Caillol, Remi Auvergne, Bernard Boutevin, ICGM - ENSCM,
Montpellier, France
9.30 – 10.00 Biobased polyamides past, present and future (M)
L23
Jürgen Herwig, Jasmin Nitsche, Harald Häger, Evonik, Marl,
Germany
10.00 – 10.20 Plant oil based renewable polyamide monomers and their
polymers via efficient (catalytic) processes (D)
L24
Matthias Winkler, Oğuz Türünç, M. A. R. Meier, KIT, Karlsruhe,
Germany
10.20 – 10.40 Dimer fatty acids: Building blocks for a multitude of new
macromolecular architectures (D)
L25
Luc Averous, ICPEES-ECPM University of Strasbourg, France
10.40 – 11.10 Coffee break
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11.10 – 13.00 Second morning session
Chair: Uwe Bornscheuer
11.10 – 11.40 Enzyme-catalyzed reactions for fatty acids modification (M)
L26
Pierre Villeneuve, Erwann Durand, Jérôme Lecomte, Eric Dubreucq,
UMR IATE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
11.40 – 12.00 Fine-tuning fatty acids length chain by metabolic engineering for
“Single Cell Oils” strategies in Ashbya gossypii (D)
L27
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, José Luis Revuelta, Universidad de
Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
12.00 – 12.20 Bio-catalytic synthesis of small molecule oil structuring
agents from renewable resources (D)
L28
Julian Silverman, George John, Department of Chemistry, The City
College of New York, and The Graduate Center of The City
University of New York, New York, New York
12.20 – 12.40 Online analysis of polycondensations in a bubble column
reactor using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy (D)
L29
Jakob Gebhard, Lutz Hilterhaus, Andreas Liese, Hamburg
University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
12.40 – 13.00 Application of fatty acid chlorides in iron and zinc catalyzed
depolymerization reactions (D)
L30
Stephan Enthaler, TU Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Cluster of
Excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis”, Berlin, Germany
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break
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14.00 – 16.00 Afternoon session
Chair: Sylvain Caillol
14.00 – 14.20 Synthesis of Palm oil based ethylhexyl ester for drilling fluid
application (D)
L31
Robiah Yunus, Nur Saiful Hafiz Habib, Zurina Zainal Abidin, Universiti
Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
14.20 – 14.50 Biobased adhesives: when green chemistry meets the material
science of sticky things (M)
L32
Richard Vendamme, Nitto Denko Corporation's European Research
Committee (ERC), Nitto Europe NV, Belgium
14.50 – 15.10 Microwave-assisted heterogeneous catalysis in esterification
and etherification reactions (D)
L33 Sabine Valange 1 , Gina Hincapie 2 , Diana Lopez 2 , Clement Allart 1 ,
Joel Barrault 1 , 1 IC2MP, UMR CNRS 7285, ENSIP, Poitiers Cedex,
France; 2 Institute of Chemistry, University of Antioquia, Medellin,
Colombia
15.10 – 15.30 Synthesis and application of cyclic carbonates of fatty acid
esters (M)
L34
Benjamin Schäffner 1 , Matthias Blug 1 , Daniela Kruse 1 , Benjamin
Woldt 1 , Mykola Polyakov 2 , Angela Köckritz 2 , Andreas Martin 2 ,
Sebastian Jung 3 , David Agar 3 , Bettina Rüngeler 4 , Andreas Pfennig 5 ,
Karsten Müller 5 , Wolfgang Arlt 5 , 1 Evonik Industries AG, Germany;
2 Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis e.V., Rostock, Germany; 3 TU
Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany; 4 RWTH Aachen, Aachen,
Germany; 5 TU Graz, Graz, Austria; 6 University of Erlangen-
Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
15.30 Poster Award and Closing Remarks
Best Poster Award
Award committee: Bret J. Chisholm, Pierre Villeneuve, Richard
Vendamme
Closing remarks
Michael A. R. Meier
16.00 End of Workshop
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Posters
P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
P8
P9
P10
Green synthesis of biolubricants from castor oil and higher chain alcohols
Chandu S. Madankar, Subhalaxmi Pradhan, S.N. Naik, Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi, India
Potassium fluoride impregnated CaO/NiO: An efficient heterogeneous
catalyst for transesterification of triglycerides
Mandeep Kaur, Amjad Ali, Thapar University, Patiala India
In-situ monitoring and induction time measurements during melt
crystallization of plant based fatty acid mixtures in V-form reactor
Sunanda Dasgupta, Peter Ay, Chair of Mineral Processing, Processing of
Biogenous Resources, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
Biomass conversion: Preparation of glycerol carbonate esters by
esterification with hybrid Nafion-silica catalyst
Sergio Martínez Silvestre, Maria José Climent Olmedo, Avelino Corma Canós,
Sara Iborra Chornet, Instituto de Tecnología Química, Valencia, Spain
Time-resolved characterization of aging products from fatty acid methyl
esters
Stephanie Flitsch, Sigurd Schober, Martin Mittelbach, Institute of Chemistry,
University of Graz; Graz, Austria
Solvent Assisted Hydraulic Pressing of Dehulled Rubber Seeds
Muhammad Yusuf Abduh, Erna Subroto, Robert Manurung, Hero Jan Heeres,
Universitty of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Hydrotreating of Non-Food Fat and Oil Derivatives for the Production of
Biofuels
Alexander F. H. Studentschnig, Sigurd Schober, Martin Mittelbach, Institute of
organic/bioorganic Chemistry, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Graz,, Austria
Enhancing the acyltransferase activity of Candida antarctica lipase A
Janett Müller, Henrike Brundiek, Birte Fredrich, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Univerity
of greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Temperature and composition dependence of density for soybeanoil,
epoxidized soybean oil and acetic acid binary mixtures
Milovan Jankovic 1 , Olga Govedarica 1 , Snezana Sinadinovic-Fiser 1 , Vesna
Rafajlovska 2
1 Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; 2 Faculty of Technology
and Metallurgy, SS Cyril and Methodious University in Skopje, Macedonia
Renewable co-polymers derived from limonene and fatty acid derivatives
Maulidan Firdaus, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic Chemistry,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
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P11
P12
P13
P14
P15
P16
P17
P18
Biphasic kinetic model of in situ epoxidation of castor oil with peracetic
acid
Milovan Jankovic, Snezana Sinadinovic-Fiser, Olga Govedarica, Faculty of
Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Thiol-yne approach to biobased polyols: polyurethane synthesis and
surface modification
Cristina Lluch, Gerard Lligadas, Joan Carles Ronda, Marina Galià, Virginia
Cádiz, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
Heteropoly acids for conversion of renewable feedstocks
Ali M. Alsalme, Abdulaziz A. Alghamdi, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saui-
Arabia
Flexible polyurethane foams modified with selectively hydrogenated
Sylwia Dworakowska 1 , Dariusz Bogdal 1 , Federica Zaccheria 2 , Nicoletta
Ravasio 2 ,
1 Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland; 2 Institute of Molecular
Science and Technologies, National Research Council (CNR-ISTM), Milano,
Italy
Synthesis, purification and modification of abietic acid dimer, an
interesting source of (co)monomers for the design of novel renewable
polymers
Audrey Llevot, Stephane Carlotti, Stephane Grelier, Henri Cramail,
LCPO, PESSAC, France
Rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of unsaturated fatty esters in
aqueous media assisted by activated carbon
Jérôme Boulanger, Frédéric Hapiot, Anne Ponchel, Eric Monflier,
UCCS Artois, Lens, France
Effect of some medicinal tea extracts on some oxidative parameters of
sesame oil
Mehmet Musa Özcan 1 , Nurhan – Uslu 1 , Fahad Al Juhaimi 2 ,
1 Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey; 2 King Saud University, Riyadh, Saui-Arabia
Self-metathesis of fatty acid methyl esters: Full conversion by choosing
the appropriate plant oil
Robert Hofsäß, Hatice Mutlu, Rowena E. Montenegro, Michael A. R. Meier,
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe,
Germany
P19 Synthesis and characterization of new biodegradable poly(linoleic acid) /
poly(linolenic acid) graft copolymers
Abdulkadir Allı 1 , Pınar Geçit 1 , Sema Allı 2 , Baki Hazer 2 ,
1 Department of Chemistry, Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey; 2 Bülent Ecevit
University, Turkey
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P20
P21
P22
P23
P24
P25
P26
P27
P28
P29
Diversity in ADMET monomer synthesis via Passerini three component
reactions with 10-undecenal as key building block
Ansgar Sehlinger, Lucas Montero de Espinosa, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of
Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Malate production by Aspergillus orzyae
Katrin Brzonkalik, Marina Bernhardt, Christoph Syldatk, Anke Neumann, KIT
Technical Biology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Monitoring of glyceride synthesis in multiphase system by ATR-Fourier
transform infrared spectroscopy
Sören Baum 1 , Martin Schilling 2 , Fabien Cabirol 2 , Lutz Hilterhaus 1 , Andreas
Liese 1 ,
Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, TH Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; 2 Evonik
Industries AG
Pressure sensitive adhesives from renewable resources
Wiebke Maassen, Norbert Willenbacher, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of
Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Renewable aromatic aliphatic copolyesters derived from rapeseed
Stefan Oelmann, Oliver Kreye, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic
Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Influence of the double bond configuration on the product composition of
Rh-catalyzed maleinisation of monounsaturated fatty acids
Steven Eschig, Tunga Salthammer, Claudia Philipp, Fraunhofer Institute for
Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut, Braunschweig, Germany
α-Arylation of saturated fatty acids: a sustainable approach to renewable
monomers?
Nicolai Kolb, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
New transfromations of ricinoleic acid derivatives
Manuel Hartweg, Hatice Mutlu, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic
Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Self-metathesis derived renewable 1,4-cyclohexadiene and its potential
applications
Sarah Wald, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mesoporous niobium-silica materials for the epoxidation of vegetable oilderived
mixtures of unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs)
Cristina Tiozzo 1 , Nicoletta Ravasio 1 , Rinaldo Psaro 1 , Dariusz Bogdal 2 , Sylwia
Dworakowska 2 , Matteo Guidotti 1 ,
1 CNR-Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies, Milan, Italy; 2 Cracow
University of Technology, Cracow, Poland
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P30
P31
P32
Isomerizing ethenolysis of functionalized olefins
Sabrina Baader, Dominik M. Ohlmann, Lukas J. Gooßen, Fachbereich Chemie,
Organische Chemie, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Synthesis of oleic acid based-polymeric lattices through emulsion and
miniemulsion polymerization
Alan T. Jensen 1 , Claudia Sayer 2 , Pedro H. H. Araújo 2 , Fabricio Machado 1 ,
1
University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil; 2 Federal University of Santa Catarina,
Florianópolis – SC, Brazil
Synthesis of polyurethane nanoparticles from renewable resources by
miniemulsion polymerization
Alexsandra Valerio 1 , Sandro R. P. da Rocha 2 , Claudia Sayer 1 , Pedro H. H.
Araújo 1
1 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – SC, Brazil; 2 Wayne
State University
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Abstracts
Part 1: Lectures
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L1
Polyurethanes from renewable resources and carbon dioxide
Rolf Mülhaupt
Freiburg Materials Research Center and Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry,
Freiburg, Germany
rolf.muelhaupt@makro.uni-freiburg.de
Since the pioneering advances by Otto Bayer, polyurethanes are well recognized as very
versatile class of materials, which can be tailored to meet the demands of highly diversified
applications, ranging from low weight engineering plastics to elastomers, fibers, foams,
coatings and adhesives. The quest for green economy and growing concerns regarding
global warming are stimulating the development of biobased polyurethanes and
polyurethanes derived from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. Traditionally, renewable
resources play an important role in polyurethane technology, particularly in manufacturing
of polyols and prepolymers. For example, polyols are produced by propoxylation of various
sugars and natural oils such as soybean and castor oil. Owing to progress in propoxylation
chemistry, odor and color problems, have been eliminated, improving properties of such
biobased polyurethanes. A variety of biobased polyols are commercially available. New
routes are developed to produce propyleneoxide from glycerol, which is a byproduct of the
biodiesel production. Intermediates of biorefineries are attractive components for making
polyurethanes. Instead of using biocatalytic carbon dioxide conversion and biomass, new
processes employ the direct chemical fixation of carbon dioxide. For instance,
copolymerization of propylene oxide with carbon dioxide affords polypropylenecarbonates
as new polyols for polyurethanes. In green polyurethane chemistry the use of isocyanates
is eliminated. Key intermediates are cyclic carbonates, prepared by reacting polyepoxides
with carbon dioxide, which are cured with amines. Both epoxidized unsaturated natural oils
and epoxidized terpenes are used as raw materials, aiming at preventing competition with
food production. This presentation will give an overview on trends and prospects of
biobased polyurethanes, focusing on the direct conversion of carbon dioxide and the
prospects of green polyurethanes.
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L2
Novel high molecular weight vinyl ether polymers based on plant oils
Samim Alam, Harjyoti Kalita, Satyabrata Samanta, Andrey Chernykh, Bret J. Chisholm,
North Dakota State University, Fargo (ND), USA
bret.chisholm@ndsu.edu
A platform technology that has been developed that involves the production of a vinyl ether
monomer using simple base-catalyzed transesterification of a plant oil triglyceride with a
hydroxy-functional vinyl, ether such as 4-(vinyloxy)butanol or 2-(vinyloxy)ethanol, to
produce a mixture of vinyl ether monomers that possess fatty acid ester groups in their
structure. This process is essentially the same as that used to produce biodiesel (i.e.
methylesters of plant oil fatty acids) with the exception that the hydroxy-functional vinyl
ether is used in place of methanol. A key aspect of the technology involves the
polymerization process that allows for high molecular weight polymers to be produced by
polymerization exclusively through the vinyl ether double bonds. This feature enables
polymers to be produced that possess unsaturation in the fatty acid ester pendent groups
derived from the plant oil starting material. As has been done for conventional plant oil
triglycerides, the double bonds can be used to produce thermoset materials either directly
through an oxidative process or by derivatization to produce other functional groups, such
as epoxides, acrylates, and hydroxyls, that can be subsequently used to produce
crosslinked networks. The polymerization process also results in a “living” polymerization
that allows for control of polymer molecular weight, narrow molecular weight distributions,
and the production of unique polymer architectures such as block copolymers and multiarm
star polymers. Another very important feature of the technology involves the ability to
copolymerize the plant oil-based vinyl ether monomers with other monomers to tailor
polymer properties such as glass transition temperature, mechanical properties, and
solubility/compatibility with other materials.
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L3
Protein engineering and application of enzymes in lipid modification
Uwe T. Bornscheuer
Institute of Biochemistry, Greifswald University, Germany
bornsche@uni-greifswald.de
Protein engineering has developed in the past decade to an important technology to alter
the properties of enzymes [1-3]. Whereas initially rational protein design was the method
of choice, directed evolution (in essence a random mutagenesis followed by screening or
selection of desired mutants) became an important alternative. More recently, researchers
used combinations of both methods. We applied extensive protein engineering guided by
advanced bioinformatic tools in combination with high-throughput screening to alter the
fatty acid selectivity of lipase A from Candida antarctica (CAL-A). This resulted in the
creation of mutants with excellent selectivity for trans- and saturated fatty acids in the
hydrolysis of partially hydrogenated plant oil [4]. Hence, this lipase variant now enables to
substantially reduce the trans-fatty acid content providing access to healthy oil for human
nutrition. Furthermore, we identified by sequence comparison a lipase from Ustilago
maydis, which also shows trans-fatty acid selectivity [5]. Another mutant of CAL-A was
found to show distinct selectivity for medium chain fatty acids [6]. We also developed a
process to reduce the monoglyceride content in commercial biodiesel by applying a
monoglyceride-selective lipase from Penicillium camembertii [7].
[1] Kazlauskas, R.J., Bornscheuer, U.T. (2009) Nature Chem. Biol., 5, 526-529
[2] Bornscheuer, U.T., Huisman, G., Kazlauskas, R.J., Lutz, S., Moore, J., Robins, K.
(2012), Nature, 485, 185-194.
[3] Kourist, R., Brundiek, H., Bornscheuer, U.T. (2010) Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol., 112, 64-
74,
[4] Brundiek, H.B., Evitt, A.S., Kourist, R., Bornscheuer, U.T. (2012) Angew. Chem. Int.
Ed., 51, 412-414.
[5] Brundiek, H., Sass, S., Evitt, A., Kourist, R., Bornscheuer, U.T. (2012), Appl. Microb.
Biotechnol., online; DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-3903-9.
[6] Brundiek, H., Padhi, S.K., Evitt, A., Kourist, R., Bornscheuer, U.T (2012), Eur. J. Lipid
Sci. Technol., 114, 1148-1153.
[7] Padhi, S.K., Haas, M., Bornscheuer, U.T. (2012), Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol., 114, 875-
879.
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L4
Epicerol ® and the environmental challenges of bio-based chemistry
Thibaud Caulier, Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
thibaud.caulier@solvay.com
The use of more renewable resources is an important trend in the chemical industry. This
evolution is well illustrated by Epicerol®, the Solvay patented process to manufacture biobased
epichlorohydrin (ECH) from natural glycerin.
To better understand the environmental footprint of this technology, we performed a life
cycle assessment benchmarking Epicerol® with the traditional propylene-based ECH
manufacturing process. This comparative eco-footprint shows that, for the same quantity
of ECH produced, Epicerol®:
- reduces the non renewable energy demand and the impact on climate change;
- has a detrimental impact on the quantitative land use and the eco-toxicity;
- does not significantly modify the water consumption.
The Epicerol® process allows the chemical industry to reduce its direct environmental
footprint (from gate to gate) thanks to an optimization of the resources (less consumption
of energy, chlorine and water), and a reduction of the emissions (CO2, chlorides and water
effluents) and by-product formation (chlorinated organics).
From cradle to gate, the use of renewable glycerin reinforces the Epicerol® gate to gate
advantages on non renewable energy consumption and CO2 balance (thanks to the
biogenic carbon capture). Paradoxically, renewable glycerin also contributes to a
degradation of other environmental parameters. It is true not only for the quantitative land
use (impact of farmlands) and the eco-toxicity (impact of plant protection products
released in the environment), but also for the water consumption (impact of irrigation)
which appears neutral from cradle to gate despite the fact that Epicerol® saves a lot of
process water from gate to gate.
The Epicerol® sustainability issues inherited from the agriculture are fundamentally
different from the sustainability issues faced by the petrochemical route. They are usually
managed by the agro-companies who face pressure in their mainstream food businesses
and by the biodiesel industry where authorities are progressively setting strict sustainability
criteria.
A lot of improvements are still to be expected in the production of glycerin. They are in the
crop yield, in the water consumption and in the general farming operations. The bio-based
chemical industry can contribute to this evolution, by the development of sustainable
sourcing policies involving a close collaboration with raw material suppliers.
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L5
Metathesis: Commercialization of Specialty Chemicals From Lipids
Mel Luetkens, Elevance Renewable Science, Woodridge , IL, USA
Mel.Luetkens@elevance.com
Elevance produces high-performance, cost-advantaged green chemicals from renewable
oils. Its process uses Nobel Prize-winning innovations in metathesis catalysis, consumes
significantly less energy and reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to
petrochemical technologies. The process use a highly efficient, selective catalyst to
produce olefins and novel fatty ester fragments from natural oils. The core process
technology is based on the work of Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert H. Grubbs. In 2011,
Elevance expanded its proprietary technology in metathesis with a licensing agreement
with XiMo AG to use proprietary molybdenum and tungsten metathesis catalysts based on
the work of Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Schrock.
The resulting products from its biorefinery are high-value, difunctional chemicals with
superior functional attributes previously unavailable commercially. These molecules
combine the functional attributes of an olefin, typical of petrochemicals, and a
monofunctional ester or acid, typical of biobased oleochemicals, into a single molecule.
Conventional producers have to blend petrochemicals and biobased oleochemicals in
attempts to achieve these functional attributes simultaneously, which when possible,
increase their production costs. Elevance’s difunctional building blocks change this
paradigm by creating specialty chemical molecules which simultaneously include desired
attributes enabled by both chemical families
Elevance’s products enable novel surfactants, lubricants, additives, polymers, and
engineered thermoplastics. Elevance has completed validation of its several processes in
toll manufacturing and it is completing its world-scale biorefinery in Gresik, Indonesia.
Elevance has also secured strategic partnerships with value chain global leaders to
accelerate deployment and commercialization for these products. In this presentation, the
biorefinery process, the biorefinery products, and some markets for the products will be
discussed.
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L6
News from the isomerizing alkoxycarbonylation
Philipp Roesle 1 , Timo Witt 1 , Florian Stempfle 1 , Josefine T. Christl 1 , Ilona Heckler 1 ,
Gerhard Müller 1 , Lucia Caporaso 2 , Stefan Mecking 1 ,
1
Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany;
2 Department of Chemistry, University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy
Philipp.Roesle@uni-konstanz.de
Thermoplastic polymers are currently prepared almost exclusively from fossil feedstocks. In view of
the limited availability of such feedstocks, alternative renewable resources are desirable in the long
term. 1 Due to their unique long methylene sequences, fatty acid esters from plant oils are attractive
substrates for monomer generation. 2 By means of isomerizing alkoxycarbonylation such
unsaturated fatty acids are converted into long-chain linear diesters in polycondensation grade
purity (> 99 %). 3a,3b These diesters are the basis for novel polycondensation monomers such as
long-chain diols or diamines, as well as for novel polycondensates such as aliphatic polyesters and
polyamides with melting and crystallization points suitable for thermoplastic processing. 3b,3c
In the discussion lecture we want to present an overview of our current research activities in the
field of the isomerizing alkoxycarbonylation of fatty acid esters: a full mechanistic study of this
unusual, highly selective reaction, by direct observation of the relevant intermediates with NMR
spectroscopic methods, supported by DFT calculations and X-ray structure analysis (identification
of the intermediates was performed by various NMR spectroscopic methods assisted by the use of
13C enriched compounds). 4 Moreover, structure-activity relationship of the diphosphine Pd(II)
catalysts, as well as the scope and limitations of this reaction will be discussed.
[1] a) D. R. Dodds, R. A. Gross, Science 2007, 318, 1250 - 1251. b) S. Mecking, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2004, 43, 1078 - 1085. c) M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger, U. S. Schubert, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2007, 36, 1788 -
1802. d) U. Biermann, U. Bornscheuer, M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger, H. J. Schäfer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
2011, 50, 3854 - 3871.
[2] a) U. Biermann, W. Friedt, S. Lang, W. Lühs, G. Machmüller, J. O. Metzger, M. Rüsch-Klaas, H. J.
Schäfer, and M. P. Schneider, Angew. Chem Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 2206 - 2224. b) C. Vilela, A. J. D. Silvestre,
M. A. R. Meier, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2012, 213, 2220 - 2227. c) F. Stempfle, P. Ortmann, S. Mecking,
Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2013, 34, 47 - 50.
[3] a) C. Jiménez-Rodriguez, G. R. Eastham, D. J. Cole-Hamilton, Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2005, 8, 878 -
881. b) D. Quinzler, S. Mecking, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4306 - 4308. c) F. Stempfle, D. Quinzler, I.
Heckler, S. Mecking, Macromolecules 2011, 44, 4159 - 4166.
[4] P. Roesle, C. J. Dürr, H. M. Möller, L. Cavallo, L. Caporaso, S. Mecking, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134,
17696 - 17703.
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Polyesters and polyamides precursors from natural and waste oils
Marc R. L. Furst 1 , David J. Cole-Hamilton 1 , Thomas Seidensticker 1 , Ronan Le Goff 1 ,
Catherine H. Botting 1 , Dorothee Quinzler 2 , Stefan Mecking 2
1 St. Andrews, Scotland, UK ; 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz,
Germany
mrlf2@st-andrews.ac.uk
As oil feedstocks dwindle, there will be a need for alternative feedstocks to produce the
many chemicals that so enhance our lives. The search for renewable raw materials from
agricultural resources, which can be synthesised into environmentally friendly low cost
polymers, is a burgeoning area.
We describe the production of different monomers for the production of polyesters and
polyamides. Dimethyl 1,19-nonadecanedioate is obtained from the methoxycarbonylation
of commercial olive, rapeseed or sunflower oils in the presence of a catalyst derived from
[Pd2(dba)3], bis(ditertiarybutylphosphinomethyl)benzene and methane sulphonic acid. The
diester is then easily hydrogenated to 1,19-nonadecanediol using Ru/1,1,1-tris-
(diphenylphosphinomethyl)ethane in aqueous media. The corresponding carboxylic acid is
easily obtained by a simple acid hydrolysis, which leads to short chain oligoesters by
anhydrous hydrogenation, which can themselves be hydrogenated to 1,19-nonadecanol by
hydrogenation in the presence of water.
One of the key aspirations of Green Chemistry is to produce useful chemicals from
renewable resources, but it is also important to use feedstocks which are available as side
products from other processes so that the Chemical syntheses does not require land
which could be used for food production.
Dimethyl 1,19-nonadecanedioate can thenbe obtained from Tall Oil fatty Acids (TOFA), a
side product from paper manufacture from pine trees using the Kraft process.
Moreover, we show that methoxycarbonylation of TOFA can give isomeric triesters,
trimethyl 1,n,17-heptadecanetricarboxylate, which are isolated in moderate yield from
methoxycarbonylation of linoleic acid. The methoxycarbonylation of methyl linoleate is
used to gain understanding of the products obtained from TOFA and to optimise that
reaction.
Moreover, a derivative from castor oil, methyl undecen-10-enoate, is aminocarboxylated
into methyl 12-oxo-12-(phenylamino)dodecanoate, in the presence of aniline and the
previously described palladium catalyst.
26

L8
Access to value-added products via metathesis of fats and terpene
derivatives
Christian Bruneau, Cédric Fischmeister, Antoine Dupé, Hallouma Bilel,
UMR 6226 CNRS-Université de Rennes 1, Institut Sciences Chimiques de Rennes,
Organométallique : Matériaux et Catalyse, Rennes cedex. France
christian.bruneau@univ-rennes1.fr
Plant oils and terpene derivatives constitute a class of renewable raw materials, which can
produce a large variety of chemicals useful for polymer and fine chemical industry.
We will show that cross-metathesis of terpenoids produces in one step new functionalized
terpene derivatives upon reaction with acrylic derivatives. [1]
O
O
+
O
Ru cat.
(Scheme 1)
MeO
CO 2 Me
The alcohol functionality of methyl ricinoleate provides a convenient entry to the
preparation of dienes. The ring closing metathesis reaction concomitently leads to
dihydropyrans derivatives, which are potentially useful for flavor and flagrance
applications, and methyl 9-decenoate and dimethyl octa-9-decenoate (its self-metathesis
product), which are polymer precursors (Scheme 2). [2]
R 2 R 1
OH
O
MeO 2
C
7
5
MeO 2 C
7
Ru catalyst
5
7
CO 2 Me
R 1
R 2
O
Scheme 2
MeO 2 C
MeO 2 C
7 7
5
_______________
[1] H. Bilel, N. Hamdi, F. Zagrouba, C. Fischmeister, C. Bruneau, Green Chem.,
2011, 13, 1448.
[2] A. Dupé, M. Achard, C. Fischmeister, C. Bruneau, ChemSusChem, 2012, 5, 2249.
27

L9
Fatty alcohols from triglycerides via catalytic hydrogenation
Dmitry G. Gusev, Denis Spasyuk, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
dgoussev@hotmail.com
Reduction of carboxylic esters is typically accomplished with the help of aluminum
hydrides. This approach is hazardous and has a challenging work-up protocol due to the
highly exothermic hydrolysis step yielding voluminous precipitates. An attractive 'green'
alternative to the classical method is the catalytic hydrogenation: RCOOR' + 2H2 ->
RCH2OH + R'OH, and there has been much recent academic and industrial interest in
reduction of esters under hydrogen gas. This presentation concerns the results of catalytic
research in our group. In the last two years, we succeeded in developing a series of ester
hydrogenation catalysts distinguished by low costs of production, high efficiency, and
currently best selectivity for the reduction of unsaturated esters. Examples of applications
of the catalytic hydrogenation for reduction of esters of fatty acids, triglycerides and natural
oils will be presented. The mechanistic details of the chemical process, practical
challenges, and perspectives of the catalytic approach for conversion of fats and oils into
fatty alcohols will be discussed.
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L10
Fe-catalyzed oxidative cleavage of olefins towards aldehydes with
hydrogen peroxide
Peter Spannring, Pieter C. Bruijnincx, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Bert Klein Gebbink,
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
r.j.m.kleingebbink@uu.nl
Olefins can be found in nature as terpenes or unsaturated fatty acids, which are derived
from vegetable oils and animal fats. Oxidative cleavage of these bio-based alkenes yields
mono- or dicarbonyl compounds, i.e. aldehydes or carboxylic acids, which can be used in
polymer, plasticizer and stabilizer production. These compounds are also useful as
intermediate building blocks for subsequent reactions.
Industrially, the oxidative cleavage of oleic acid is done by ozonolysis, yet this oxidant is
hazardous. Expensive and often toxic transition-metal complexes derived from Ru [1], W
[2] or Os [3] are known to catalyze these specific oxidative cleavages, with the help of
reactive and relatively hazardous oxidants like NaIO4 or oxone. On the other hand, firstrow
transition-metal complexes are primarily known to cleave styrene-derivatives into
benzaldehyde [4]. Permanganate may also be used for these reactions, yet it has to be
used in stoichiometric amounts.
Here, we present a study towards the use of more benign methods to oxidatively cleave
aliphatic double bonds and unsaturated fatty acids into aldehydes, using Fe-catalysts and
hydrogen peroxide. Ultimately, such procedures can be seen as green alternatives for the
production of chemical building blocks from renewable sources.
[1] Rup, S., Zimmermann, F., Meux, E., Schneider, M., Sindt, M. and Oget, N., Ultras.
Sonoch. 16 (2009) 266.
[2] Turnwald, S.E., Lorier, M.A., Wright, L.J. and Mucalo M.R., J. Mat. Sci. Lett. 17 (1998)
1305.
[3] Ley, S.V., Ramarao, C., Lee, A.L., Oostergaard, N., Smith, S.C. and Shirley, I.M., Org.
Lett. 5 (2003) 185.
[4] Dhakshinamoorthy, A. and Pitchumani, K., Tetrah. 62 (2006) 9911.
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L11
The first catalytic Lossen rearrangement: Sustainable access to fatty
acid derived nitrogen containing monomers and polymers
Oliver Kreye, Sarah Wald, Maike Unverferth, Alexander Prohammer, Michael A. R. Meier,
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
oliver.kreye@kit.edu
A new highly efficient and environmentally benign catalytic variant of the Lossen
rearrangement is described.[1] Dimethyl carbonate (DMC) as green activation reagent of
hydroxamic acids in presence of catalytic amounts of tertiary amine bases (TBD, DBU,
DABCO and triethylamine) and small quantities of methanol initiate the rearrangement.[2]
Methyl carbamates were obtained in good to moderate yields if aliphatic hydroxamic acids
were employed in this catalytic Lossen rearrangement; under the same conditions
aromatic hydroxamic acids yielded anilines. Notably, the mixture of DMC / methanol was
recycled several times without observing decreased yields, thus minimizing the produced
waste. Moreover, several other organic carbonates (e.g. bis-allyl- or bis-benzyl-carbonate)
were successfully employed in the introduced catalytic Lossen rearrangement procedure.
The rearrangements of fatty acid derived dihydroxamic acids afforded a facile and
sustainable entry to valuable dimethyl carbamate monomers for the synthesis of nonisocyanate
polyurethanes (NIPUs).[3] The conversion of these monomers with different
aliphatic diols gave structurally diverse thermoplastic NIPUs with molecular weights up to
17 kDa after intensive optimizations regarding the used catalytic system and reaction
conditions.
[1] H. L. Yale, Chem. Rev. 1943, 33, 209; L. Bauer, O. Exner, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.
1974, 13, 376.
[2] O. Kreye, S. Wald, M. A. R. Meier, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, DOI:
10.1002/adsc.201200760.
[3] O. Kreye, M. Unverferth, A. Prohammer, M. A. R. Meier, Manuscript in preparation.
30

L12
Regioselective hydrogenation of vegetable oils with Pt/ZSM-5 catalysts
An Philippaerts, Pierre Jacobs, Bert Sels, K.U.Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
an.philippaerts@biw.kuleuven.be
Catalytic hydrogenation of vegetable oils is a well-known process in food industry to make
the oil more resistant against air autoxidation and/or to obtain fats with a certain melting
profile.[1] With the increasing interest of vegetable oils as a renewable feedstock, the
selective hydrogenation of triglyceride molecules is also important for industrial
applications, as for instance in the production of bio-lubricants.[2]
Importantly, the competitive isomerization leading to trans fatty acids needs to be
eliminated as much as possible both in food as industrial applications as they are
considered a risk factor in coronary heart diseases[3] and/or have a too high melting point,
respectively. Unfortunately, literature learns that low cis/trans isomerization is almost
always associated with a lower hydrogenation selectivity, implying that the unstable
polyunsaturated fatty acids are not selectively converted to the more stable monounsaturates.[4]
In this contribution, a new catalytic concept with shape-selective Pt/ZSM-5 catalysts, that
is able to decouple the isomerization/hydrogenation selectivity, will be presented.[5]
Chemical and physical analysis of the new fat products against commercial benchmarks
will be given to show its ideal physical properties despite its essentially trans-free
composition.[6]
It will be shown that the improved selectivity obtained with the Pt/ZSM-5 catalyst results
from a unique regioselectivity in which the fatty acids located on the central position (sn-2)
are preferentially hydrogenated. As vegetable oils contain their polyunsaturated fatty acids
mostly at the central position of the triglyceride molecules, these will be preferentially
hydrogenated and hence stabilized without significant trans fatty acid formation.
Experiments with Pt/ZSM-5 catalysts with different crystal sizes prove that this
unprecedented regioselective property is a consequence of pore-mouth catalysis, in which
only one fatty acid chain is able to enter the small micropores of the ZSM-5 zeolite where it
will be hydrogenated by the internal Pt nanoclusters.
[1] H.B.W. Patterson in “Hydrogenation of Fats and Oils: Theory and Practice, AOCS
press, 1994.
[2] a) N. Ravasio, F. Zaccheria, M. Cargano, S. Recchia, A. Fusi, N. Poli, R. Psaro, Appl.
Catal. A 2002, 233, 1-6; b) U. Biermann, U. Bornscheuer, M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger, H.
J. Schäfer, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3854-3871; Angew. Chem. 2011, 123, 3938-
3956.
[3] D. Mozaffarian, M. Katan, A. Ascherio, M. Stampfer, Willett, W. N. Engl. J. Med. 2006,
354, 1601-1613.
[4] A. Philippaerts, P.A. Jacobs, B.F. Sels, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (accepted)
[5] A. Philippaerts, S. Paulussen, A. Beersch, S. Turner, O.I. Lebedev, G. Van Tendeloo,
B. Sels, P. Jacobs, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3947-3949; Angew. Chem. 2011,
123, 4033-4035.
[6] A. Philippaerts, A. Breesch, G. De Cremer, P. Kayaert, J. Hofkens, G. Van den Mooter,
P. Jacobs, B. Sels, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 2011, 88, 2023-2034.
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L13
Catalyst selection for conversion of fats and oils to renewable chemical
products
Aalbert Zwijnenburg, Johnson Matthey Chemicals GmbH, Emmerich, Germany
bart.zwijnenburg@matthey.com
This contribution will focus on how to select optimal catalysts for the conversion of fats and
oils to renewable chemical products. To achieve commercially attractive products, in
general, fats and oils need oxygen removal and or hydrogen addition.
These reactions are best carried out via metallic catalysts. The presentation will focus on
how to select most promising catalysts, by following design rules on the feedstock acidity,
the expected scale of the production plant and the expected purity of the starting material.
By synthetic biology, new feedstocks are becoming available, such as terpenes and fatty
alcohols. These new material potentially need less chemical conversion (such as oxygen
removal and/or hydrogen addition). It will be shown how these feedstocks differ from the
traditional raw materials and how this affects the catalysis. Also the applicability of the
general catalyst selection rules will be discussed.
To illustrate the catalyst selection process, an overview of traditional fatty alcohol
developments will be given and this will be linked to most recent developments in this
area.
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L14
ADM’s Green Chemistry – Platform Chemicals Based on Renewable
Feedstock
Jürgen Fischer, Paul Bloom, ADM Research GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
Juergen.Fischer@adm.com
Archer Daniels Midland, founded in 1902 as a linseed crushing plant, is today one of the
world’s largest agricultural companies, with its activities covering the whole value chain.
The development of new technologies and products is indispensable to make the company
fit for the future and to assure its position in the world.
The technical use of bio-based products has a long history. Today, ADM’s industrial
products cover a wide range comprising biofuels, sugars and specialty chemicals amongst
others solvents.
Worldwide research on chemicals from biomass focuses on two major pathways:
1. Direct replacement of existing substances by their “bio” versions
Direct replacement is the preferred option since products and intermediates from
conventional production routes can be replaced by their identical biobased version. Good
examples are propylene glycol (PG), ethylene glycol (EG) and acrylic acid. PG and EG
can easily be produced from biomass by hydrogenolysis of glycerol and sugars. This
reaction with hydrogen under mild conditions is a direct replacement for the production
from fossil resources. ADM’s propylene glycol plant has been in operation since 2010,
producing high quality PG with significantly lower CO2 emissions compared to the
petrochemical route. Propylene glycol is used as a key component i.e. in resins,
cosmetics, detergents and deicers. Acrylic Acid is a common platform chemical for many
applications. ADM is currently piloting a plant for the conversion of biomass to ethanol and
acrylic acid/esters.
2. Bioadvantaged molecules: new intermediates from biomass able to replace existing
ones from fossil sources.
New intermediate and new products derived thereof are facing a major challenge: they
must prove that they perform like their existing alternatives and/or they must provide
significant health or environmental benefits.
The production of carbohydrates from biomass is a technology which still offers room for
improvement. ADM is running a biorefinery for the conversion of lignocellulosic materials
to sugars, which are the main source for new platform materials. Beside substances like
Itaconic acid and Succinic acid Isosorbide is a promising molecule which can be used as
platform chemical for a variety of products, i.e. polymers, solvents, surfactants etc., thus
replacing e.g. Bisphenol A.
ADM will continue to develop the use of biomass and assure feedstock supply by
innovations in processing, investment in agricultural infrastructure, thus continuing and/or
establishing partnerships.
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L15
Isosorbide-based Value Products
Claudia Stoer, Markus Dierker, Claus Nieendick, Catherine Breffa,
BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
claudia.stoer@basf.com
Isosorbide, a cyclic diol completely obtainable from renewable raw materials, is an ideal
candidate for further derivatization that should lead to new, innovative, green products with
favourable properties regarding sustainability and performance compared to petrochemical
based existing benchmarks.
While Isosorbide has been known for many years, only a few applications have been
realized commercially so far. When we started with Isosorbide chemistry we intended to
evaluate Isosorbide as building block and starting material for the development of new
marketable products for cosmetic and laundry detergents.
Thus the challenge is that fundamental studies are required to come to a conclusion in
terms of general and economic feasibility of the synthesis as well as compatibility with
typical formulation ingredients. The properties of new synthesized derivatives are not
predictable at all and must therefore be evaluated in a broad screening.
Here the syntheses as well as first application test results of neutral and anionic Isosorbide
derivatives are presented. In summary, not only the practicability in typical formulations but
also the general suitability for the foreseen applications can be demonstrated. The most
promising results are currently evaluated and optimized in new projects.
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L16
Polyurethane dispersions based on renewable resource materials
– off to pasture new!
Manfred Diedering, Markus Dimmers, Maria Ebert,
Alberdingk Boley GmbH, Krefeld, Germany
m.diedering@alberdingk-boley.de
With the increasing importance to preserve limited resources and the steadily increasing
prices for mineral oil based raw materials, the pressure and will is increasing to utilize
more renewable raw materials. Among coating materials, alkyd resins and polyurethanes
are important substance classes which can be produced to a significant percentage on a
renewable base. Especially water-born polyurethane dispersions are predestined for the
application in new fields of applications due to their broad variability regarding the
chemical and mechanical properties.
The binder in interior wall paints is typically on the base of styrene acrylics or vinyl acetate
ethylene copolymers. These raw material bases make it quite difficult to switch to
renewable raw materials as there are hardly any renewable monomers available. In
addition, in this product range there are additional requirements and regulations important
for a healthy living environment.
Alberdingk Boley shows current developments in an area which is opening up a new
application field for polyurethane dispersions: a binder for interior wall paints with a
significant part of renewable raw material (based on vegetable oil) which is at the same
time free of VOC (volatile organic compound) and amines. The presentation focuses on
the application, technological comparison between conventional binders and the new
product. It is shown that it is indeed possible to achieve comparable performance and to
reduce the mineral oil based organic content by ca. 50%.
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L17
Development of transformer oils based on renewable raw materials
Günther Kraft, FUCHS Europe Schmierstoffe, Mannheim, Germany
gunther.kraft@fuchs-europe.de
Since approx. 20 years the increase of the usage of renewable material in substantial and
energetical way is promoted by policy, natural sciences and economy. The increasing
application of renewable raw materials has various positive consequences, of economical
as well as of ecological nature. Fallow acres can be (re)used reasonably to produce
renewable raw materials and the products basing on those are potentially less toxic and
possess better biodegradability in comparison to mineral oil based products. Additionally
the substitution of fossil limited resources, whose CO2- emissions potential pollutes the
environment more distinctively, can have a positive effect on the eco-balance, as
renewable raw materials offer a closed cycle of materials.
The development of new transformer oils on the base of plant oils offer the possibility to
substitute the hitherto used mineral oil based products. In addition to the higher
biodegradability, the renewable based oils can be classified as “not hazardous to waters”
according to German legislative, which is especially preferable in a sensible ambience.
Besides the argumentation of sustainability and eco-balance, a renewable based ester
transformer oil can also offer technical benefits due to optimized properties. Examples are
e.g. higher flame and burning points which can reduce the risk of the burning potential
explicitly. Optimized cold temperature behaviour with a low pour point allows the
application in cold locations, which is not possible with pure plant oils. In comparison to
mineral oils, the ester based fluid is able to hold much higher quantities of water, without a
decline of the electrical stability. Hereby the risk of snap-through failures at cold starting
conditions is reduced. Due to the higher absorption of water by ester oils, the lifetime of
the transformer can be extended additionally, as the bio based oil decreases especially the
hydrolytic degradation of the cellulose (by water) which is used in the transformer
pressboard.
Overall, new transformer ester oils on the base of renewable raw materials can have a
share in the substitution of fossil crude materials without cutting back the technical abilities
– in contrary, they outclass the mineral oil based transformer oils of today.
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L18
Biorefinery: A sustainable design platform for green surfactants and
soft materials
George John, Department of Chemistry,
The City College of the City University of New York, New York, USA
gglucose@gmail.com
In future research, developing materials from renewable resources would be fascinating
yet demanding practice, which will have a direct impact on industrial applications, and
economically viable alternatives. This talk presents a novel and emerging concept of
generating new chemicals, intermediates and materials in a ‘Biorefinery’. Our continuous
efforts in this area have led us to develop new amphiphiles and surfactants from industrial
by-products, which upon self-assembly produced molecular materials including micelles,
emulsions, lipid nanotubes, twisted/helical nanofibers, thickening agents (molecular gels)
and liquid crystals. More recently, harnessing the availability of ‘chiral pool’ of
carbohydrates and selectivity of enzymes catalysis, we have produced an array of
amphiphilic molecules from simple sugars and sugar alcohols. Intriguingly, by combining
biocatalysis, with principles of green and supramolecular chemistry, we have developed
building blocks-to-assembled materials. The second part of the talk addresses the
templated synthesis of organic-inorganic hybrid materials for targeted use in coatings,
liquid crystal templates and energy storage devices. These results will lead to efficient
molecular design of supramolecular architectures and multifunctional soft materials from
underutilized plant/crop-based renewable feedstock.
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L19
Synthesis of fatty ethers: Catalytic reduction of fatty acid esters
Ursula Biermann, Jürgen O. Metzger,
Universität Oldenburg and abiosus e.V., Oldenburg, Germany
ursula.biermann@uni-oldenburg.de
Oils and fats are presently the most important renewable feedstock of the chemical
industry. The direct reduction of fatty esters and especially of triglycerides to fatty ethers
would be a most important reaction because fatty ethers show interesting differences of
the properties in comparison to esters. We discuss a novel reaction protocol allowing to
convert for example tributyryne, a triglyceride, and methyl oleate, an unsaturated fatty
ester (Scheme) to the respective ethers using stoichometric amounts of 1,1,3,3-
tetramethyldisiloxane (TMDS) as reductant and low catalyst loading of 1% GaBr 3 to give in
a solvent-free reaction at room temperature after a reaction time of only 3 h 100 %
conversion of the starting material and high product yields. The work up procedure is most
simple. The products were isolated by simple distillation of the reaction mixture without any
additional work-up.
Using the described standard reaction conditions it was also possible to convert lactones
to the respective cyclic ethers.
O
O
+ TMDS/GaBr 3
r. t., 3h
O
Conversion 100%; Yield 89% (distillation)
Methyl oleate : TMDS : GaBr 3 =1:1:0.01
Scheme: Gallium-catalyzed reduction of methyl oleate with tetramethyldisiloxane and
GaBr 3 as catalyst to give methyl oleylether
[1] WO 2013/010747 A1
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L20
Additions to unsaturated fatty acid esters: Electrophilic additions via
boron compounds and [2+2]-cycloadditions with
N-chlorosulfonylisocyanate to ß-lactams
Theodor Lucas, Christian Kalk, Hans J. Schäfer, Organisch- chemisches Institut der
Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
schafeh@uni-muenster.de
Unsaturated fatty acids can be modified by electrophilic addition and cycloaddition to form
higher value products.
In hydroboration the added boron atom can be replaced in a subsequent oxidation by a
hydroxy group [1]. This way methyl linoleate (1), methyl ricinoleate (2), methyl 10-
undecenoate (3) and methyl oleate (4) could be converted into the corresponding methyl
dihydroxy- and hydroxystearates and 11-hydroxyundecenoate in 82-92 % yield [2].
Organoboranes isomerize at higher temperatures [1]. Hydroboration of oleic acid and
subsequent heating to 220 oC led after oxidative work-up to 70% of 1,4-octadecandiol [2].
Presumably a 1,4-oxaborinane intermediate determines the interesting regioselectivity of this
isomerization.
Organoboranes undergo a dealkylation-coupling with alkaline silver nitrate, presumably via
radicals as intermediates, which had been applied to ester 3 [1]. Attempts to transfer the
reaction to the internal organoboranes from ester 1 and 4 led to radical disproportionation
products, which is the favourable reaction of the intermediate secondary alkyl radicals.
Reaction of ester 3 with a terminal double bond and 1-hexene, which invlolves primary alkyl
radicals, led to 25 % of the heterocoupling product: methyl heptadecanoate [2].
Organoboranes can be added to α,β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds [1]; presumably a
radical chain reaction is involved. With 3, borane and methylvinylketone the 1,4-adduct
methyl 14-oxopentadecanoate could be obtained in 68% yield [2]. However, attempts to add
unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters with internal double bonds as 1 and 4 failed.
With carbon monoxide or the cyanide anion the carbonyl group can be inserted between two alkyl
groups of an organoborane. The same result can be achieved in the base initiated reaction of
dichloromethyl methyl ether (DCME) with boranes. This is a less toxic alternative to the use of
carbon monoxide or cyanide and additionally it has a broader scope [1]. The boranes of 1, 3 and 4
were treated at -75°C with DCME and then were deprotonated with lithium triethyl carboxide. This
way esters 1, 3 and 4 led to dimers connected by a carbonyl group in 55-80% yield [2].
The [2+2]-cycloaddition of N-chlorosulfonylisocyanate (NCSI) to alkenes affords ß-lactams
[3]. The esters 1, 2, 3 and methyl petroselinate (5) were reacted at room temperature with
NCSI. Thereafter the chlorosulfonyl group was reductively removed with sodium disulfite,
which afforded the ß-lactams in 59-72% yield [4].
Ring opening of the ß-lactams led to partial ester hydrolysis in spite of using different acids
and different acid concentrations. To achieve a selective ring opening the ester group was
replaced by an acid resistant alkoxy group. Alkoxy ethers from 3 and 4 afforded the ß-lactams in
42-57% yield; the lactams were hydrolyzed with aqueous HCl quantitatively to the corresponding
amino acids.
The antibiotic activity of the ß-lactams from 2, 3 and 5 was explored with the plate diffusion
test. They showed a significant activity against mycobacterium, which also comprises the
pathogens of tuberculosis and leprosy. The highest activity was found with the ß-lactam from 5.
[1] H. C. Brown, Hydroboration, 2. ed, Benjamin, 1980.
[2] Th. Lucas, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Münster, 1991.
[3] R. Graf, Chem. Ber. 1956, 89, 1071-1079.
[4] Ch. Kalk, Ph. D. Thesis , University of Münster, 2001.
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Singlet oxygenation of unsaturated monoglycerides in single-phase and
multiphase systems using hydrogen peroxide catalyzed by molybdate
anions
Hermine HNM NSA MOTO, Zephirin MOULOUNGUI, Université de Toulouse, ENSIACET-
INRA-INP Toulouse, Laboratoire de Chimie Agro-Industrielle, Toulouse, France
hermine.nsamoto@ensiacet.fr
Monoglycerides are the most polar component of simple lipids. Because of their special
chemical structures comprising an aliphatic lipophilic chain and two hydroxyl groups in the
hydrophilic part, monoglycerides have detergent-like properties; hence, they easily form
micelles in aqueous solutions. Monoglycerides are directly used in a wide range of
applications, including surfactants, lubricant additives, plastics, and materials for textile
industry. These products are of great interest as emulsifiers in the foods, cosmetic and
pharmaceutical industries. Monoglycerides have been synthesized by a variety of
substrates with glycerol, an abundant by-product from the biodiesel industries (1). Our
research group has already developed new routes to convert the glycerol and glycidol with
fatty acid material to 1-monoglycerides (2,3). This fact stimulated the study on
monoglyceride as a platform chemical that can be derivatized to design new functional
building-blocks for the synthesis of new surfactants or polymers.
The major aim of this project is to use vegetable oils and their derivatives, and to transform
them by the simple methods into very rewarding oxygenated products which are products
of high added value oleochemicals. To do this, the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids by
singlet oxygen has proved to be considerable more suitable route to the synthesis of the
allylic alcohols and epoxides compounds (4).
First, this presentation will highlights a new route to convert selectively double bond of
unsaturated monoglycerides into oxygenated monoglycerides using singlet oxygen
generated chemically by aqueous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) catalyzed by molybdate
anions (MoO42-) in single-phase and multiphase emulsion systems (5,6). Such a method
involves the synthesis in an organized molecular system which is favorable to in situ
production of singlet oxygen and to improve the lifetime of singlet oxygen and the
coexistence of singlet oxygen with a molybdate catalyst activated. According to this
process, the hydroxy allylic-, epoxy- and dihydroxy-monoglycerides were synthesized and
the characteristics of these resultant products were evaluated.
Second, this presentation will present the use of a method for in situ generation of singlet
oxygen by heterogeneous molybdate-based catalysts which are consisting with molybdate
anions supported on anion exchange resins. This system can be considered as an
emulsion or a microemulsion supported on a solid catalytic phase that prevent only the
close contact between organic substrates and peroxomolybdates (the intermediate
peroxomolybdates generated by H2O2/MoO42- system) to increase the in situ generation
of singlet oxygen and promotes also a large surface exchange for oxidation.
The last part of study deals with the synthesis of estolides (7), where oleic acid and erucic
acid and the new oxygenated monoglycerides were used as model substrate. All reactions
were run at stoichiometry such that the fatty acids hydroxyl groups would all be esterified
to estolide. Using this approach, chemical characteristics of these new estolides
compounds were also analyzed.
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Synthesis of biobased building blocks from vegetable oils: towards
platform chemicals
Sylvain Caillol, Remi Auvergne, Bernard Boutevin,
ICGM - ENSCM, Montpellier, France
sylvain.caillol@enscm.fr
Uncertainty in terms of price and availability of petroleum, in addition to global political and
institutional tendencies toward the principles of sustainable development, urge chemical
industry to a sustainable chemistry and particularly the use of renewable resources in
order to synthesize biobased chemicals and products. A biobased product is a product
synthesized from renewable resources (vegetal, animal, or fungal). Vegetable oils come
from various plants (soybean, palm, rapeseed, etc.) and mainly contain triglycerides
molecules where the three hydroxyl functions of glycerin are esterified with fatty acids.
These fatty acids could be saturated, with non-reactive aliphatic chains (stearic or palmitic
acids) or unsaturated, with aliphatic chains bearing double bonds (oleic, linoleic, linolenic,
ricinoleic acid, etc.). These natural oils, and particularly the unsaturated ones, are of
interest since various reactions could be performed from their different groups in order to
obtain various building blocks for polymer chemistry. We report the synthesis of various
building blocks from vegetable oils in one or two-steps syntheses. Thiol-ene coupling
allowed to synthesize new biobased reactants with various function and functionality with
reaction conditions in agreement with green chemistry principles: it does not use neither
solvent nor initiator or need a simple purification step, feasible at industrial scale.
Esterification and amidification were also use to insert ester or amide groups in fatty
chains in order to modifiy properties of thereof synthesized polymers. Building blocks
synthesized have various functions and functionality: polyols, polyacids, polyamines and
dicyclocarbonates from vegetable oils and from glycerine derivatives.
We developed a real chemical toolbox based on thiol-ene coupling and
amidification/esterification to synthesize a library of biobased building blocks with various
functions and functionality from vegetable oils. The synthesized building blocks reported in
this contribution are polyols, polyacids, polyamines and dicyclocarbonates from vegetable
oils and from glycerine derivatives. They led to polymer synthesis such as polyurethanes,
polyhydroxyurethanes and epoxy resins. These biobased building blocks led to polymers
with various properties: low Tg polymers for coating or higher Tg polymers for composites.
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Biobased Polyamides past, present and future
Jürgen Herwig, Jasmin Nitsche, Harald Häger, Evonik, Marl, Germany
juergen.herwig@evonik.com
Although the chemical industry stands for less than 10 percent of the overall fossil carbon
usage, the chemical industry is nevertheless making a concerted effort to use renewable
resources for producing the monomers used in polymer synthesis. One method is to use
ethanol obtained from sugar cane (as Braskern and DOW are planning to do in Brazil) to
manufacture petrochemical feedstocks such as ethylene, which can then be used for
synthesizing polyethylene. The advantage of this method is that it can accommodate
existing processes, and does not affect existing approvals. A second approach—one that,
while significantly more difficult, is also more promising in the long run—is to convert raw
materials using new catalytic or biotechnological processes. This is the strategy that
DuPont is pursuing as it uses biotechnology techniques to produce 1,3-propandiol, a
compound that yields new material properties in polyesters. While reducing the number of
process steps—in some cases dramatically—is yet another advantage, these new
materials will, however, need to be relaunched on the market and submitted to relevant
chemical registries.
Polyamids based on biorenewable feedstocks, primarily those derived from ricinus oil
and/or ricinoleic acid methyl ester, have been
known for over 50 years.
Boiling with NaOH yields
sebacic acid, and pyrolytic cleavage at >500ºC
High
produces 10-undecylenic
PEEK,
acid. This, in turn, can be
PPSU, performance
converted to 11- PEI, PPA, Bio- polymers aminocarboxylic acid and
PA12 PPA
PA11. Decanediamine PA11
can also be synthesized in
PA1012
this way, which opens up
the door to producing
PA1010,
PA1010. Combining these
PMMA, PA6, PA610, Engineering with monomers derived
PA66, PBT,
plastics
from petrochemical PET, PC PTT, etc
feedstocks yields
polyamides such as PA610, PA1012 and
PP, PS, PE, PE, PVC, PLA,
PA10T based in part on PVC, etc.
biological sources. It is
PHB, etc
important to remember Based on petrochemical
feedstock renewable feedstock above necessarily
Based on bio-
here that the synthesis
pathways described
produce by-products.
Major growth in the use of polyamides derived from petrochemical feedstocks has
prompted growing interest in sustainable products over the past several years, with the
result that more and more fatty acid-based polyamides are being marketed as
biopolyamides. This means that polyamides from biorenewable feedstocks are now an
issue for the future—the task ahead will be to combine the sustainability of renewable
materials with the manufacturing processes of the petrochemical industry.
In addition to discussing methods for synthesizing polyamides from a variety of available
monomers, the speaker will also compare the properties of polyamides derived from
biorenewable feedstocks to those of their petrochemical counterparts. How can
sustainability and green chemistry be combined? Various approaches will be presented.
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Plant oil based renewable Polyamide monomers and their polymers via
efficient (catalytic) processes
Matthias Winkler, Oğuz Türünç, M. A. R. Meier, KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
matthias.winkler@kit.edu
Aliphatic polyamides are a class of highly valuable engineering plastics. Their excellent
mechanical properties are mainly due to increased chain-chain interactions by hydrogen
bonding, which lead to higher tensile strength, impact strength, fracture stress and
abrasive resistance as well as chemical inertness and heat resistance. Polyamides are
widely applied high-performance polymers, which are used, e.g., as fibers, tubings, formparts
in the automobile-, textile- or electric industry. Particularly, Polyamides from
renewable resources are of great interest due to their lower environmental impact.
Herein, we present three different strategies for the synthesis of AB-type renewable
monomers, which can be used for the preparation of polyamides by simple
polycondensation. In this context, methyl oleate and -erucate were utilized as substrates,
which were transformed to valuable AB-type monomers via thiol-ene addition of
cysteamine[1] and other efficient procedures.[2,3] Both, monomer synthesis and
polymerization were studied in detail and the resulting Polyamides were characterized by
GPC, NMR, DSC as well as tensile tests. Moreover, the prepared renewable monomers
were employed in co-polymerizations with hexamethylendiamine and dimethyl adipate to
modify the mechanical and thermal properties of conventional nylon 6,6.
[1]O. Türünç, M. Firdaus, G. Klein, M. A.R. Meier, Green. Chem. 2012, 14, 2577-2583.
[2]M. Winkler, M. A. R. Meier, submitted
[3]M. Winkler, M. Steinbiß, M. A. R. Meier, submitted
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Dimer fatty acids: Building blocks for a multitude of new
macromolecular architectures
Luc Averous, ICPEES-ECPM University of Strasbourg, France
luc.averous@unistra.fr
At high temperature, double bonds of unsaturated fatty acids may change their position to
form conjugated structures, facilitating their dimerisation by Diels-Alder mechanism. This
reaction leads to a mixture of compounds, such as dimers and trimmers of fatty acids.
After purification, the dimer fatty acids can be used as raw materials or modified e.g., for
the synthesis of biobased polymers.
The activity of the BioTeam at University of Strasbourg (France) is mainly focused on the
development of new biobased polymer systems for environmental and biomedical
applications. In this context, we have developed a great variety of new macromolecular
architectures based on dimer fatty acids such as (i) TPUs, which can be partially [1-2] of
fully biobased [3], (ii) Polyamides [4-5], (iii) polyetheramides …
The presentation will be mainly focused on the structure-properties relationships for these
different architectures, in connection with theirs synthesis.
From these polymers, different multiphase systems (biocomposites …) can be formulated
[6-8] with specific performances to fulfill the requirements of a large range of applications
and numerous fields such as automotive industry, consumer or domestic equipment,
construction engineering and biomedical applications.
1. Bueno-Ferrer C., Hablot E., Garrigós M.C., Bocchini S., Averous L., Jiménez A., (2012)
“Relationship between morphology, properties and degradation parameters of novative
biobased thermoplastic polyurethanes obtained from dimer fatty acids” Polymer
Degradation and Stability. Vol. 97, N°10, pp. 1964-1969.
2. Bueno-Ferrer C., Hablot E., Perrin-Sarazin F., Garrigós M.C., Jiménez A., Averous L.
(2012) “Structure and morphology of new bio-based thermoplastic polyurethanes obtained
from dimeric fatty acids" Macromolecular Materials & Engineering. Vol. 297, N°8, pp. 777–
784.
3. Charlon M., Heinrich B., Donnio B., Matter Y., Avérous L., “Synthesis, structure and
properties of fully biobased thermoplastic polyurethanes based on hydrogenated dimer of
fatty acids “ Under Press.
4. Hablot E., Donnio B., Bouquey M., Avérous L. (2010) « Dimer acid-based thermoplastic
bio-polyamides: reaction kinetics, properties and structure ». Polymer, Vol. 51, N°25, pp.
5895-5902.
5. Hablot E., Tisserand A., Bouquey M., Avérous L. (2011) “Accelerated artificial ageing of
new dimer fatty acid-based polyamides” Polymer Degradation and Stability. Vol. 96, pp.
1097-1103.
6. Matadi R., Hablot E., Wang K., Bahlouli N., Ahzi S., Avérous L. (2011) « High strain rate
behaviour of renewable biocomposites based on dimer fatty acid polyamides and cellulose
fibres » Composites Science and Technology. Vol. 71, pp. 674–68.
7. Hablot E, Matadi R, Ahzi S, Avérous L. (2010) “Renewable biocomposites of dimer fatty
acid-based polyamides with cellulose fibres: thermal, physical and mechanical properties”.
Composites Science and Technology. Vol. 70, pp. 504–509.
8. Hablot E, Matadi R, Ahzi S, Vaudemond R, Ruch D, Avérous L. (2010) “Yield behaviour
of renewable biocomposites of dimer fatty acid-based polyamides with cellulose fibres”.
Composites Science and Technology. Vol. 70, pp. 525–529.
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Enzyme-catalyzed reactions for fatty acids modification
Pierre Villeneuve, Erwann Durand, Jérôme Lecomte, Eric Dubreucq
UMR IATE, CIRAD, Montpellier, France
villeneuve@cirad.fr
This presentation will give an overview of the various kinds of reactions that are carried out
in our research group regarding the use of enzymes, mainly lipases, to modify oils and
fats. Lipases are enzymes that perform very well outside their physiological and natural
medium and that can be therefore used as biocatalysts for reactions in limited aqueous
systems. Indeed, lipases are widely used in a large variety of reactions such as lipid
customizing, corresponding to an adjustment of the fatty acid composition and
regiodistribution of oils and fats to obtain new products with designed physical and
chemical properties, such as mixtures enrichment and modification of fatty acids or such
as the synthesis of new lipophilized compounds with specific physico-chemical or
biological properties. Some examples of such reactions will be given with emphasis on
lipases specificity and selectivities, and the use of new alternative media to organic
solvents for enzyme-catalyzed reactions
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Fine-tuning fatty acids length chain by metabolic engineering for
“Single Cell Oils” strategies in Ashbya gossypii
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, José Luis Revuelta,
Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
rodrigoledesma@usal.es
Fatty acids and its derivatives are highly relevant compounds in industry since they have a
wide range of applications, from biofuels to fine chemicals such as pharmaceutical or
fragrances. Metabolic engineering of microorganisms to produce “Single Cell Oils” (SCOs)
seems to be a feasible strategy with promising industrial results in lipid production. Ashbya
gossypii is an industrial-friendly filamentous fungus, which is being used for large-scale
production of vitamins but it is also an oleaginous organism able to accumulate lipids up to
40% of its cell dry weight. Different organisms have distinct fatty acids compositions and
two kinds of enzymes: elongases and desaturases are major determinants of lipid profiles.
We characterized the elongase and desaturase system in Ashbya gossypii by
heterologous functional analysis in S. cerevisiae, thus we identified two very long chain
fatty acid elongases and one ∆12 desaturase. We used this information to perform
metabolic engineering in this pathway and several Ashbya gossypii strains with different
fatty acid composition were constructed. These strains can be used as both, 1) platform
strains for future development of genetic engineering approaches in order to produce an
specific fatty acid derivative and 2) as direct source of uncommon fatty acids important for
industry since they are enriched in 24:0 and 26:0 or 24:1, which are mainly constituents of
wax esters used for polishes, coatings and cosmetics or they are used as hightemperature
lubricants and engineering nylons respectively.
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Bio-catalytic synthesis of small molecule oil structuring agents from
renewable resources
Julian Silverman, George John,
Department of Chemistry, The City College of New York, and The Graduate Center of The
City University of New York, New York, New York,USA
jsilverman@gc.cuny.edu
The synthesis and formation of functional materials from renewable resources is the first
step to mitigating an anthropogenic dependence on petroleum-derived products.
Biocatalysis allows for the facile synthesis of fatty acid glucosides capable of thickening
and solidifying a range of hydrophobic solvents. Various glucosides were selected as
sugar-based headgroups and a series of amphiphiles were synthesized by attaching
hydrophobic carboxylic acids at one-end of the sugar using an enzyme-mediated
regioselective transesterification reaction. For tuning the hydrophobicity of the resulting
amphiphile, various carboxylic acids of different chain length were attached [typically
(CH2)4-14]. A library of new compounds was easily established by the simple variation of
hydrophobic fatty acid chain length, and modification of the hydrophilic glucoside for a
variety of applications (food storage and preservation, cosmetics and personal care
products). The synthesis of novel structuring agents using biocatalysis from renewable
feedstocks is a green methodology that may be used to produce next generation
environmentally benign products and chemicals.
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Online analysis of polycondensations in a bubble column reactor using
ATR-FTIR spectroscopy
Jakob Gebhard, Lutz Hilterhaus, Andreas Liese,
University of Technology of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Jakob.Gebhard@tuhh.de
Synthetic polymers are indispensable for modern society. Since the 1920s polymers are
produced from fossil resources, which are being exhausted. Biocatalytic syntheses of
polymers via lipase-catalyzed polycondensation of renewable monomers is a alternative
but challenging approach. However biocatalysts show higher enantio- and regioselectivity
at lower reaction temperatures than chemical catalysts.
The presented work focuses on the solvent free polyester synthesis starting from 1,3-
propanediol and 9-((Z)-non-3-enyl)-10-octylnonadecanedioic acid (PripolTM) in a bubble
column reactor catalyzed by immobilized lipase B from Candida antarctica. The analysis of
these biotransformations is usually carried out by size exclusion chromatography.
Therefore monitoring of such processes requires labor intensive sample preparation. The
aim of this work is to design chemometric models based on the measured absorption
spectra of fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in combination with an
attenuated total reflectance (ATR)-probe. This methodology allows the continuous
determination of conversion of the reactants as well as the molecular weight (Mw)
distribution of the formed polymer. The developed models make use of partial least
squares (PLS) algorithm to correlate offline data and spectral information. Mw and
conversion from several polymerizations performed at same experimental conditions are
used to calibrate two independent models, which showed small root mean square errors of
cross validation of 2,14 % and 319 g/mol for conversion and Mw respectively.
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Application of fatty acid chlorides in iron and zinc catalyzed
depolymerization reactions
Stephan Enthaler, TU Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Cluster of Excellence “Unifying
Concepts in Catalysis”, Berlin, Germany
stephan.enthaler@tu-berlin.de
Polymers occupy a significant and omnipresent position in human life. Current polymer
feedstocks are based primarily on monomers originated from fossil fuels, which cause
clearly a number of problems. On the one hand the confirmed reserves of fossil fuels are
progressively decreasing, and their depletion is just a matter of time. On the other hand a
huge quantity of polymers is thermally decomposed after they have accomplished their
purposes or are converted to low-quality materials. In consequence, a negative impact on
the environment is caused, specifically the production of greenhouse gases. Due to these
problems, an important issue for current research must address to the invention of
protocols for an efficient recycling of polymers. One attractive approach could be the
depolymerization of polymeric materials to attain valuable products, which can applied
later on in polymerization processes to produce new polymeric materials. In this regard the
utilization of transition metal catalysts presents an efficient opportunity to realize this aim.
Here the application of cheap and abundant “bio”metals as catalyst core (e.g., Fe, Zn) will
be advantageous. An extensively applied class of polymers or co-polymers are polyethers
(e.g., polytetrahydrofuran, polyethylene oxide, polypropylene oxide). The repeating ether
units could represent an appropriate functionality to coordinate to the metal and by this an
activation of the ether can take place. The addition of fatty acid chlorides, to the activated
ether functionality could allow the depolymerization of the polyether to obtain well-defined
monomeric chloroesters. The products can be suitable sources for the production of
monomers, such as vinyl esters, which can later on polymerize to yield new high-quality
semi-biomaterials. Moreover, the carbon carbon double bonds in unsaturated fatty acids
can be of interest for cross linked polymers.
Based on this concept and our interest in zinc and iron chemistry we present herein the
usefulness of an easy-to-adopt system composed of catalytic amounts of zinc or iron salts
and stoichiometric amounts of fatty acid chlorides for the depolymerization of polyethers to
yield valuable building blocks for polymer chemistry.[1-4]
References
[1] S. Enthaler, M. Weidauer, Catal. Lett. 2012, 142, 168–175.
[2] S. Enthaler, M. Weidauer, Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 1910–1913.
[3] S. Enthaler, M. Weidauer, ChemSusChem 2012, 5, 1195–1198.
[4] S. Enthaler, Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol. 2012, DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.201200301.
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Synthesis of palm oil based ethylhexyl ester for drilling fluid application
Robiah Yunus, Nur Saiful Hafiz Habib, Zurina Zainal Abidin,
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
robiah@eng.upm.edu.my
Recently, the use of ester as a base fluid in synthetic base fluids (SBF) has become a
trend in drilling operations due to many advantages compared to the conventional drilling
fluids in particular its costs and environmental concern. The synthesis of ester as
biodegradable base oil was conducted via transesterification reaction of palm oil methyl
ester (POME) with 2-ethylhexanol (EH). The reaction was carried out at different
temperatures (70⁰C to 140⁰C) and the pressure was fixed at 1.5 mbar. Palm oil based
ethylhexyl esters was successfully synthesized in less than 30 minutes under 1.5 mbar
pressure, 70ºC, and 1:2 molar ratio of POME to EH. The rate constant of the reaction (k)
obtained from the kinetics study was in the range of 0.44 to 0.66 s-1. The activation energy
of the reaction was 15.6 kJ.mol-1. The preliminary investigation on the lubrication
properties of drilling mud formulated with palm based 2EH ester indicated that the base oil
has a great potential to substitute the synthetic ester base oil for drilling fluid. Its high
kinematic viscosity provides better lubrication to the drilling fluid compared to other esterbased
oils. The pour point and the flash point are superior for the drilling fluid formulation.
The plastic viscosity, HPHT filtrate loss and emulsion stability of the drilling fluid give
acceptable values while, gel strength and yield point can be improved by blending it with
proper additives.
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Biobased adhesives: when green chemistry meets the material science
of sticky things
Richard Vendamme,
Nitto Denko Corporation's European Research Committee (ERC), Nitto Europe NV,
Belgium
richard.vendamme@neuf.fr
The growing awareness of society towards environmental issues combined with the recent
governments regulations and incentives towards the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions
is pushing the chemical and adhesive industries to develop greener products and to find
alternative growth strategies based on more sustainable economical models. Although the
use of raw materials derived from renewable feedstock seems a particularly relevant
option, finding sustainable and efficient ways to transform biofeedstocks into highly
functional materials and coatings is still very challenging.
Pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) materials are a peculiar class of glues intended to form
a reversible bond simply by the application of a light pressure to marry the adhesive with
the adherent. Conceptually, PSAs must be designed with a subtle balance between flow
and resistance to flow: the bond forms because the adhesive is soft enough to wet the
adherent, but the bond also has suitable strength because the adhesive is hard enough to
resist the stress of the debonding stage. The formation, development and strength of the
adhesive bonds can be tuned by thoughtfully adjusting the bulk viscoelastic properties of
the glue and/or by incorporating functional monomers within the base-polymer structure.
To date, most commercial PSA are still based on petroleum resources and there is an
imperious need to develop more sustainable PSA chemistries.
The development of biobased materials is one solution (among others) used by the Nitto
Denko group to tackle environmental problems. In this talk, we would like to demonstrate
that Nitto Denko’s ambition to make a step-forward in the advancement of biobased
adhesives take the form of pragmatic and multi-angle investigations covering both value
chain considerations (monitoring and screening of biobased raw material, performing Life-
Cycle-Assessment), technical aspects (leveraging the performance and reliability of
biobased adhesives) and new business development (unravelling the full business
potential of biobased adhesives). The technical part of the presentation will be focused on
the development of polyester-based pressure sensitive adhesives derived from various
renewable biofeedstocks such as plant oils or sugars.1
1 Interplay Between Viscoelastic and Chemical Tunings in Fatty-Acid-Based Polyester
Adhesives: Engineering Biomass toward Functionalized Step-Growth Polymers and Soft
Networks. R. Vendamme*, K. Olaerts, M. Gomes, M. Degens, T. Shigematsu, W. Eevers,
Biomacromolecules, 13, 1933-1944 (2012).
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Microwave-assisted heterogeneous catalysis in esterification and
etherification reactions
Sabine Valange 1 , Gina Hincapie 2 , Diana Lopez 2 , Clement Allart 1 , Joel Barrault 1 ,
1
IC2MP, UMR CNRS 7285, ENSIP, Poitiers Cedex, France ; 2 Institute of Chemistry,
University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
joel.barrault@univ-poitiers.fr
Among alternative fuels, monoalkyl (methyl or ethyl) esters issued from vegetable or
animal oils and alcohols have some advantages, such as renewability, biodegradability,
heat content, availability, … From these natural oils (triesters of glycerol) monoalkyl-esters
are obtained via transesterification with methanol or ethanol, while glycerol being formed
as by-product. The use of methanol is more common than ethanol at the industrial scale
because of its low cost and high reactivity. There is however an increased interest in the
use of ethanol because of its superior solubility for oil coupled to its entirely renewable
characteristics. Since the reaction rate of that reaction is much lower than the former one,
there is a need for finding more efficient catalysts or/and more efficient processes.
We have shown that starting from a non-edible oil, namely castor oil obtained from Ricinus
communis L. seeds, a homogeneous base-catalyzed transesterification process in the
presence of ethanol can take place at low temperature (60°C) and atmospheric pressure
with a ethyl-ester yield of 78% after 1h of reaction. By contrast, the use of microwaves as a
heating medium to drive the transesterification reaction resulted in a strong increase of the
reaction rate under the same experimental conditions (1.5 wt% KOH as catalyst and
temperature of 60°C). Such microwave-assisted system allowed us to obtain the same
ethyl-ester yield after only 10 min of reaction. Our results indicated that microwave heating
can effectively reduce the reaction time probably due to a change in Arrhenius preexponential
factor.
We next investigated the microwave-assisted glycerol etherification to selectively produce
short-chain oligomers in the presence of homogeneous bases at temperatures ranging
from 200 to 260°C. While a complete glycerol conversion was observed after 6h of
reaction under conventional heating, the same conversion was attained after only 1h with
the microwave-assisted system. More surprisingly, diglycerol was mainly obtained with a
yield as high as 90 % under such reaction conditions, whereas a complex mixture of
polyglycerols was formed under conventional heating with a diglycerols yield less than
50%.
In summary, we have shown that the microwave-assisted production of ethylesters derived
from castor oil was more easily achieved with shorter times compared to conventional
methods. A similar trend was observed for the formation of diglycerol where a fairly
unexpected yield of 90 % was obtained. Future studies will focus both on a fundamental
approach of the alcohol activation and on the scaling up of the microwave-assisted esters
or ethers production.
Acknowledgement
The authors acknowledge CODI - University of Antioquia for financing the project,
Colciencias for the Ph.D. scholarship of G.H. and ‘VALAGRO Carbone Renouvelable
Poitou-Charentes’ for fruitful discussion.
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L34
Synthesis and application of cyclic carbonates of fatty acid esters
Benjamin Schäffner 1 , Matthias Blug 1 , Daniela Kruse 1 , Benjamin Woldt 1 , Mykola Polyakov 2 ,
Angela Köckritz 2 , Andreas Martin 2 , Sebastian Jung 3 , David Agar 3 , Bettina Rüngeler 4 ,
Andreas Pfennig 5 , Karsten Müller 5 , Wolfgang Arlt 5 ,
1
Evonik Industries AG, Germany; 2 Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis e.V., Rostock, Germany;
3 TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany; 4 RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany; 5 TU Graz,
Graz, Austria; 6 University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
benjamin.schaeffner@evonik.com
A cascaded method for the development of new processes using carbon dioxide has been
developed in the public-funded project a H 2 ECO 2 coordinated by the Science-to-Business
Center Eco² of Creavis, the strategic research and development unit of Evonik. The
procedure includes a thermodynamic, ecological and economic analysis as well as the
evaluation of the catalytic and process feasibility. Industrial relevant target molecules have
been identified with a great CO 2 -saving potential. Suitable catalysts and a synthetic route
have been designed and a Life-Cycle-Analysis for the new product has been completed
(Scheme 1).
Scheme 1: Life-Cycle of a new product in comparison to the benchmark.
The combination of fatty acid derivatives and CO 2 as building block can yield an interesting
class of compounds known as fatty acid carbonates. The use of CO 2 as chemical building
block has the chance to mitigate CO 2 -emissions from power plants and large industrial
sites. The consortium established a robust route to synthesize cyclic carbonates from fatty
acid epoxides in order to test their potential in applications (Scheme 2). Furthermore, a
Life-Cycle-Analysis was performed with an established benchmark to compare the
environmental footprint and CO 2 -emissions.
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Scheme 2: Synthesis of cyclic carbonates of epoxidized fatty acid esters and CO 2 .
a This project is funded by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ministry for
innovation, science and research) and co-financed by the EU (European Regional
Development Fund).
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Abstracts
Part 2: Posters
55

P1
Green synthesis of biolubricants from castor oil and higher chain
alcohols
Chandu S. Madankar, Subhalaxmi Pradhan, S.N. Naik,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
chandumadankar@gmail.com
Renewable raw materials are playing important role in developing environmentally
sustainable products. The consumption of oils and fats from vegetable and animal origin is
increasing, as the trend is moving towards more eco friendly products. The use of
environmentally acceptable vegetable oil-based product as lubricants has many
advantages, as they are nontoxic, biodegradable, derived from renewable resources, and
have a reasonable cost when compared to other synthetic fluids. Castor oil content about
87% of ricinoleic acid which is a hydroxy acid and having high viscosity as compared to
other vegetable oils, thus the use of castor oil in lubricants is more prevalent. We have
made an attempt to develop a green process for the production of bio lubricants from
castor oil. The process includes the enzymatic transesterification of castor oil with higher
chain alcohols in solvent and solvent free medium led to the production of fatty acid alkyl
esters, which can be used as biolubricants. In this study, the reaction parameters
investigated were the reaction time, temperature, enzyme loading, mixing speed and molar
ratio (alcohol to triglycerides), and their effect on the alkyl esters formation. The lubricity of
the alkyl esters were measured using High frequency reciprocating rig (HFRR).
56

P2
Potassium Fluoride Impregnated CaO/NiO: An Efficient Heterogeneous
Catalyst for Transesterification of Triglycerides
Mandeep Kaur, Amjad Ali, Thapar University, Patiala India
mandeepthapar@gmail.com
Potassium impregnated CaO/NiO has been prepared by wet impregnation method in nano
particle form as supported by powder X–ray diffraction, Scanning electron microscopy
(SEM) and Transmission electron microscopy (TEM). BET surface area measurements
and Hammett indicator studies have done in order to establish the effect of potassium
impregnation on catalyst structure, particle size, surface morphology and basic strength.
CaO/NiO impregnated with 20 wt% potassium was used as solid catalyst for the
transesterification of different triglyceride (Fresh cottonseed oil, Waste cottonseed oil,
Karanja oil, Jatropha oil, Soybean oil) having free fatty acid contents in the range of 0.32–
8.3 wt %. The variables used for the transesterification were KF impregnated on CaO/NiO,
catalyst concentration, reaction temperature, methanol to oil molar ratio, reaction time and
free fatty acid content. Reaction parameters have been optimized to achieve the least
reaction period for the completion of the reaction. Complete transesterification of waste
cotton seed oil with methanol required 4 h in the presence of KF impregnated CaO/NiO
nano catalyst at 65 ºC with 15:1 methanol to oil and 5 wt% (catalyst/oil) of catalyst.
57

P3
In-situ monitoring and induction time measurements during melt
crystallization of plant based fatty acid mixtures in V-form reactor
Sunanda Dasgupta, Peter Ay, Chair of Mineral Processing, Processing of Biogenous
Resources, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
dasgupta@tu-cottbus.de
Enriched plant based unsaturated fatty acid mixtures are increasingly finding applications
in various fields like those of production of bio-fuels and polymerization of epoxy resins. In
the case of production of epoxy resins, they are highly advantageous due to the presence
of multiple double bonds in the fatty acids which provide opportunities for cross linking by
substitution. On the other hand, bio-fuels need raw materials with very low crystallization
temperatures. This special property can also be attributed to these enriched unsaturated
fractions due to their weak inter-molecular interactions owing to the kink in their structures.
Melt crystallization has long been established as an optimal method for purification and
enrichment of fractions from mixtures [1,2]. Previous studies have shown promising results
with regard to enrichment of unsaturated fractions by melt crystallization processes [1].
Melt crystallization kinetics of two plant based poly-unsaturated fatty acid mixtures have
been investigated in this study [3]. A high oleic and a high linoleic fatty acid mixture were
chosen for comparison purposes. A V-form reactor was developed for optimal in-situ
analysis with the help of the focused beam reflectance measurement (FBRM®, Mettler
Toledo Ltd., Switzerland) instrument [3]. Enhanced heat transfer especially to deal with the
heat given out during crystallization was enabled through minimal volume of sample,
optimized mixing and the special shape of the reactor. Important parameters like induction
time, mixing speed, etc have been determined and compared as functions of degree of
supercooling and composition of PUFA mixtures. In accordance to theory, the induction
times in both the cases decreased with increasing supercooling and mixer speed. On the
other hand, the high linoleic fatty acid mixture required much higher supercooling (4.4K to
5.4K) than the high oleic mixture (2.2K to 3.2K) for favorable induction times.
References
[1] S. Dasgupta, N. Dreiack, P. Ay, presented at the 5th Workshop on Fats and Oils as
Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry (Eds: J.O. Metzger, M.A.R. Meier),
Karlsruhe 2012
[2] G.F. Arkenbout, Melt Crystallization Technology, Technomic Publishing Company Inc.,
Pennsylvania 1995
[3] S. Xu, Master thesis, Chair of Mineral Processing, Processing of Biogenous Resources,
Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus 2010
58

P4
Biomass conversion: Preparation of glycerol carbonate esters by
esterification with hybrid Nafion-silica catalyst
Sergio Martínez Silvestre, Maria José Climent Olmedo, Avelino Corma Canós, Sara Iborra
Chornet, Instituto de Tecnología Química, Valencia, Spain
sermars4@itq.upv.es
Glycerol carbonate esters (GCEs) which are valuable biomass derivative compounds have
been prepared by direct esterification starting from glycerol carbonate and long organic
acids with different chain length in absence of solvent and using acid organic resins,
zeolites and hybrid organic-inorganic acid catalysts as heterogeneous catalysts. The best
results in terms of activity and selectivity to glycerol carbonate esters have been obtained
using a Nafion-silica composite. A full reaction scheme has been established and it has
been found that an undesired competing reaction is the generation of glycerol and esters
derived from a secondary hydrolysis of the endocyclic ester group due to water formed
during the esterification reaction. The influence of temperature, substrates ratio, catalyst to
substrate ratio and use of solvent has been studied and, under optimized reaction
conditions, it is possible to achieve 95% selectivity to the desired product at 98%
conversion. It was found that reaction rate decreased as the number of carbons in the
linear alkyl chain of the carboxylic acid increases for both p-toluenesulfonic acid and
Nafion SAC-13. Fitting experimental data to a mechanistically based kinetic model, the
reaction kinetic parameters for Nafion SAC-13 catalysis were determined and compared
when reacting different carboxylic acids. The enthalpy of adsorption, activation energy and
entropy of the surface reaction indicate that the lower reactivity of the carboxylic acid in
this reaction when increasing the chain length kinetic study is supported by inductive as
well as entropic effects.
59

P5
Time-resolved characterization of aging products from fatty acid methyl
esters
Stephanie Flitsch, Sigurd Schober, Martin Mittelbach,
Institute of Chemistry, University of Graz; Graz, Austria
stephanie.flitsch@uni-graz.at
Fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) are the main components of biodiesel. They are subject
to chemical aging and play a major role in fuel aging processes of biodiesel and
diesel/biodiesel blends. The occurrence of FAME aging products in standard diesel
engines may result in damage to fuel-carrying or engine parts. While numerous sum
parameters are available to characterize fuel aging properties, very little research has
been done on the analysis of specific aging products.
The aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the processes of FAME
aging.
FAMEs were aged by applying high temperatures (110°C) and a constant stream of air via
a Rancimat device. FAME hydroperoxides were identified and characterized as the
primary aging products. Secondary aging products include short-chain fatty acids,
aldehydes, alcohols, and epoxides.
The formation of aging products is monitored during time-resolved measurements using
gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and ion exchange chromatography
(IEC) [1]. Additionally, polymer formation is monitored via size-exclusion chromatography
(SEC) [2]. The concentration of hydroperoxides reaches its maximum shortly before the
investigated FAME reaches its IP. An increase in the formation of secondary aging
products is observed after the investigated FAME reaches its IP.
[1] Morales A, Dobarganes C, Márquez-Ruiz G, Velasco J, 2010: Quantitation of
Hydroperoxy-, Keto- and Hydroxy-Dienes During Oxidation of FAMEs from High-Linoleic
and High-Oleic Sunflower Oils, Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society, 87, 1271-
1279
[2] Márquez-Ruiz G, Holgado F, García-Martínez MC, Dobarganes MC, 2007: A Direct and
Fast Method to Monitor Lipid Oxidation Progress in Model Fatty Acid Methyl Esters by
High-Performance Size-Exclusion Chromatography, Journal of Chromatography A, 1165,
122-127
60

P6
Solvent Assisted Hydraulic Pressing of Dehulled Rubber Seeds
Muhammad Yusuf Abduh, Erna Subroto, Robert Manurung, Hero Jan Heeres,
Universitty of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
p262868@rug.nl
Rubber seed oil (RSO) has potential to be used for biodiesel synthesis [1, 2]. We have
carried out experimental studies on the solvent assisted hydraulic pressing (SAHP) of
rubber seeds with the objective to enhance oil recovery yields. Ethanol was used as the
solvent as it is available from renewable resources, non-toxic and poses less handling
risks than hexane [3]. Dehulled rubber seeds were pressed in a laboratory scale hydraulic
pressing machine. The effect of seed moisture content (0-6 % w.b.), temperature (35-105
oC), pressure (15- 25 MPa) and solvent to seed ratio (0.07- 0.21 % (v/w)) on the oil
recovery was investigated. An optimum oil recovery of 74 % d.b. was obtained when 2 %
w.b. dehulled rubber seeds were pressed in the presence of ethanol at 20 MPa, 75oC and
10 min pressing time, which is about 8% better than in the absence of ethanol. The
experimental dataset was modelled using two approaches, viz i) a regression model using
Response Surface Methodology (RSM) and ii) a fundamental model developed by Shirato
[4]. Both models give a good description of the effects of process conditions on oil yields.
The moisture content of the seeds and temperature has the most significant effect on the
oil recovery followed by pressure and solvent to seed ratio (Figure 1).
Figure 1 Effect of moisture content and temperature on the oil recovery of SAHP of
dehulled rubber seeds as modelled by RSM
In conclusion, we have shown that ethanol assisted hydraulic pressing has a clear
beneficial effect on the oil recovery oil yield for dehulled rubber seeds.
[1] Ikwuagwu, O. E.; Ononogbu, I.C.; Njolu, O.U., Industrial Crops Products, 12 (2000),
57–62.
[2] Morshed, M.; Ferdous, K.; Maksudur, R.K.; Mazumder, M.S.I.; Islam, M.A., Uddin, Md.
T., Fuel, 90 (2011), 2981–2986.
[3] Ferreira-Dias, S.; Valente, D.G.; Abreu, J.M.F., Grasas y aceites 54 (2003), 378–383.
[4] Shirato, M.; Murase, T.; Iwata, M.; Nakatsuka, N, Chemical Engin. Sci. 41 (1986),
3213–3216.
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P7
Hydrotreating of Non-Food Fat and Oil Derivatives for the Production of
Biofuels
Alexander F. H. Studentschnig, Sigurd Schober, Martin Mittelbach,
Institute of organic/bioorganic Chemistry, Karl-Franzens University Graz, Graz,, Austria
alexander.studentschnig@uni-graz.at
Fatty acid methyl esters are well established alternative biofuels and have been
successfully used as neat diesel fuel or as blend with fossil fuels around the world.
However, due to limited stability and an oxygen content of about 10 %, the use in blends is
limited by 7 % (vol/vol) due to European specifications. Hydrogenation of vegetable oils in
combination with deoxygenation, decarbonylation and decarboxylation could lead to
hydrocarbons, which could be used as so-called drop-in fuels with similar properties like
fossil Diesel fuel or kerosene.
Hydrotreating is used in conventional oil refineries to remove sulfur, nitrogen and metals
from petroleum-derived feedstocks. Also high quality diesel fuel can be produced through
this process [1]. Although hydrogenated vegetable oils have already been commercialized
as so-called Next-BTL [2] or UOP’s Green DieselTM and Green Jet fuelTM
[3] not much is known about the use of non-food feedstocks like waste vegetable oils,
animal fat or fatty acids from
oil refining.
Fatty acid methyl esters from different non-food sources were successfully converted into
n-alkanes in a batch reactor under hydrotreating conditions. Different formulations of selfprepared
NiMo/Al2O3 were used as catalysts and the reaction kinetics was studied for
each
of the feedstocks at 360 and 380°C at a constant initial hydrogen pressure of 90
bars,samples were taken periodically. These samples were analyzed for their composition
by GC-MS. It could be found out that there are slight differences in turnover depending on
the characteristics of the feedstock that seem to diminish by increasing the reaction
temperature. The obtained products were tested on certain fuel properties such as the
distillation range by simulated distillation via gas chromatography, cold flow properties and
other general fuel parameters. As the main components of these synthetic hydrocarbon
mixtures are n-alkanes in the diesel boiling range, blending with diesel fuel can easily be
done.
[1] G.W. Huber et al., Applied Catalysis A: General 329 (2007) 120–129
[2] Neste Oil, http://www.nesteoil.com/, (accessed 01/2013)
[3] Honeywell UOP, http://www.uop.com/, (accessed 01/2013)
62

P8
Enhancing the Acyltransferase Activity of Candida antarctica Lipase A
Janett Müller, 1 Henrike Brundiek, 2 Birte Fredrich, 1 Uwe T. Bornscheuer, 1
1 University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany; 2 Enzymicals AG, Greifswald, Germany
janett.mueller@uni-greifswald.de
Fatty acid esters are important compounds in different fields of application. Fatty acid
methyl esters can be used as biodiesel and are an alternative to common diesel fuel.
Moreover different fatty acid esters e. g. methyl laurate and ethyl laurate can be used as
flavoring and fragrance compounds in the cosmetic industries.
The synthesis of these compounds is often achieved by the use of lipases in water-free or
low-water transesterification reactions where common oils are used as substrates.[1] But
some lipases like the Candida antarctica lipase A (CAL-A) also possess an acyltransferase
activity that enables the synthesis of fatty acid esters even in the presence of water.
Avoiding the necessity of a water-free system can be an important cost factor concerning
the industrial applicability of a certain process. In addition to that the CAL-A exhibits some
characteristics, e.g. its thermostability that is favorable for industrial application and the 3D
structure of the enzyme is available, which is beneficial for protein engineering.[2]
For an engineering of the acyltransferase activity of CAL-A, the enzyme expression was
established in E. coli and in Pichia pastoris.[3] The expression in E. coli is possible in
deepwell plates. Thus larger mutant libraries can be screened. For such a screening
different high-throughput assays are possible: on one hand the pH-shift caused by fatty
acid consumption can be detected, on the other hand the consumption of alcohol can be
measured by establishing an enzyme cascade that converts the alcohol further for
example with an alcohol dehydrogenase or an oxidase.
[1] Gog, A.; Roman M.; Toșa M.; Paizs C.; Irimie F. D. (2012); Biodiesel production using
enzymatic transesterification - Current state and perspectives; Renew Energ 39: 10-16
[2] Ericsson D.J.; Kasrayan A.; Johansson P.; Bergfors T.; Sandströn A. G.; Bäckvall J.-E.
and Mowbray S. L. (2008); X-ray structure of Candida antarctica Lipase A shows a novel
lid structure and a likely mod of interfacial activation; J. Mol. Biol. 376: 109-119
[3] Brundiek, H.B., Evitt, A.S., Kourist, R., Bornscheuer U.T. (2011); Creation of a lipase
highly selective for trans fatty acids by protein engineering; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51:
412-414.
63

P9
TEMPERATURE AND COMPOSITION DEPENDENCE OF DENSITY FOR
SOYBEAN OIL, EPOXIDIZED SOYBEAN OIL AND ACETIC ACID BINARY
MIXTURES
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Milovan Jankovic 1 , Olga Govedarica 1 , Snezana Sinadinovic-Fiser 1 , Vesna Rafajlovska 2
1 Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia; 2 Faculty of Technology and
Metallurgy, SS Cyril and Methodious University in Skopje, Macedonia
ssfiser@uns.ac.rs
Epoxidized soybean oil is biodegradable replacement for phthalates used in past as PVC
stabilizers. By subjecting epoxidized soybean oil to ring opening reactions, high-funcionality
vegetable oil-based materials applicable for resin preparation may be produced. Industrially,
soybean oil is mainly epoxidized with peracetic acid formed in situ from acetic acid and hydrogen
peroxide in the presence of an acid catalyst. Mineral acids, such as sulphuric acid, or acidic ion
exchange resin are catalysts of choice. Such reaction system is two (oil-water) or three (oil-waterion
exchange resin) phase, depending of applied catalyst. Two main reactions of peracetic acid
and epoxy ring formation occur, as well as several side reactions of epoxy ring cleavage.
Therefore, a rigorous kinetic model, necessary for process optimization, should include kinetic,
thermodynamic and mass transfer parameters. Due to extensive number of the parameters, their
simultaneous determination by fitting experimental data for the variation of components
concentration with time is inconvenient and incorrect [1]. More appropriate should be to determine
some of the parameters in separate experiments designed for investigation of particular
phenomenon such as partitioning of components between phases [2]. For the multiphase
epoxidation system, partition coefficient of acetic acid, KA, is the function of a liquid-liquid
equilibrium constant for acetic acid, Kx,A, and molar volumes of compressed liquid for water and
oil phase, vw and vo, respectively. Molar volume of compressed liquid is a ratio of molar mass, M,
and a compressed liquid density, ρ.
In this work, densities of pure components and their binary mixtures related to the oil phase of the
reaction system of soybean oil epoxidation with peracetic acid formed in situ were measured and
fitted with appropriate correlations found in literature. The aim was to determine temperature and
composition dependence of the density. Measurements were done in the temperature range of 20
to 800C and for mixture compositions that correspond to the component ratio in an industrial
process. Spencer-Danner-Rackett [3] and COSTALD [4] correlations and Amagat`s law for
calculation of molar volume of saturated liquid, as well as Yen-Woods [5] , Nasrifar-Moshfeghian
[6], simplified Nasrifar-Moshfeghian [7] and Iglesias-Silva-Hall [8] correlations for saturated liquid
density, were used. Tait equation is further applied to obtain corresponding values of molar volume
of compressed liquid. Fitting the experimental data by Marquardt algorithm, a critical temperature,
critical pressure, acentric factor and critical compressibility factor for soybean oil, epoxidized
soybean oil and acetic acid for each applied correlation were calculated. The best fit model, with an
average relative error of 0.59%, was found to be Spencer-Danner modification of Rackett equation.
Acknowledgment: This work is part of the Project #III 45022 supported by the Ministry of Education
and Science of the R. Serbia. The authors thank the DAAD and INFU, FR. Germany, for
instrument donations.
References:
[1] M. Janković, S. Sinadinović-Fišer, M. Lamshoeft, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. (2010) 87:591-600
[2] S. Sinadinović-Fišer, M. Janković, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. (2007) 84:669-674
[3] C.F. Spencer, R.P. Danner, Chem. Eng. Data (1973) 18:230-234
[4] R.W.Hankinson, G.H. Thompson, AIChE J. (1979) 26:653-663
[5] L.C. Yen, S.S. Woods, AIChE J. (1966) 12:95-99
[6] Kh. Nasrifar, M. Moshfeghian, Fluid Phase Equilib. (1999) 158-160:437-445
[7] A. Mchaweh, A. Alsaygh, Kh. Nasrifar, M. Moshfeghian, Fluid Phase Equilib. (2004) 224:157-
167
[8] G.A. Iglesias-Silva, K.R. Hall, Fluid Phase Equilib. (1997) 131:97-105

P10
Renewable Co-Polymers Derived from Limonene and Fatty Acid
Derivatives
Maulidan Firdaus, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
maulidan.firdaus@student.kit.edu
The limited availability of petroleum resources and their escalating prices has led to an
increase interest in the development of new platform chemicals from renewable resources.
From the standpoint of cost and availability, fatty acid derivatives and (R)-(+)-limonene are
among valuable renewable raw materials of great promise for polymer synthesis. Thus, we
present a versatile and effective way to synthesize renewable diolefin and dithiols derived
from (R)-(+)-limonene and/or fatty acid derivatives via thiol-ene addition. The monomers
thus obtained have been characterized and their behavior in thermal or photochemical
thiol-ene polyaddition have been investigated. Thus, through different combinations, (R)-
(+)-limonene and fatty acid derivatives copolymers were prepared and their structurethermal
property relationships were studied. GPC results and intensive DSC analysis of
the resulting polymers revealed that renewable polysulfides from amorphous to highmelting
crystalline polymers with molecular weights up to 31.8 kDa can be obtained. In
addition, polysulfones were also prepared by oxidation of corresponding polysulfides with
hydrogen peroxide solution. DSC analysis demonstrated an increase in thermal properties
when the polysulfides are oxidized into polysulfones. Overall, the combination of (R)-(+)-
limonene and fatty acid derived monomers might open an entry to new polymers derived
from these renewable resources.
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P11
BIPHASIC KINETIC MODEL OF IN SITU EPOXIDATION OF CASTOR OIL
WITH PERACETIC ACID
Milovan Jankovic, Snezana Sinadinovic-Fiser, Olga Govedarica,
Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
oborota@uns.ac.rs
Castor oil is a natural polyol which has in its fatty acid composition about 90% of monounsaturated
hydroxy acid i.e. ricinoleic acid (12-hydroxy-9-octadecenoic acid). This renewable resource can be
used for polyurethane production. However, more crosslinked polyurethane network may be
obtained by introducing additional hydroxy groups in fatty acid chains of castor oil triglycerides.
That can be achieved via epoxidation of double bonds, followed by transformation of epoxy groups
to hydroxy groups.
In large scale production of epoxidized vegetable oils common oxidizing agent is percarboxylic
acid, such as performic or peracetic acid. It is usually obtained in situ through the acid catalyzed
reaction of the corresponding organic acid with hydrogen peroxide. Soluble mineral acid, usually
sulphuric acid, or acidic cation exchange resin, is commonly used as catalyst for this reaction [1].
Besides the main reactions of percarboxylic acid and the epoxy ring formation, side reactions of
epoxy ring cleavage also occur [2]. Depending on the applied catalyst, the reaction system is either
two- (oil-water) or three-phase (oil-water-ion exchange resin). Due to complexity of the reaction
system, kinetic models that have been proposed are based on different simplifications [3].
In this work the kinetics of the epoxidation of castor oil in benzene with peracetic acid generated in
situ from acetic acid and hydrogen peroxide in the presence of an acidic cation exchange resin as
the catalyst was studied. A pseudo-two phase kinetic model was developed. The side reaction of
epoxy ring with acetic acid involving the formation of hydroxyl acetate in addition to reactions of the
formation of peracid and epoxy groups was considered. Approximate modeling of the peracetic
acid formation, assuming that it occurs at the surface of the ion exchange resin, was based on
Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson (LHHW) and Rideal-Eley (RE) postulates. Depending on
which reactants/products are adsorbed/desorbed on active catalyst sites and which step of this
heterogeneous catalytic reaction determines the overall reaction rate, 18 models were established.
Temperature dependency of the reaction rate coefficients ki and sorption equilibrium constants KS
were expressed by reparameterized Arrhenius equation. The model parameters, i.e. constants of
the Arrhenius equation were determined by fitting experimental data for epoxidations run under
different reaction conditions using the Marquardt method. After model discrimination the best fit
model was accepted. It assumes that acetic acid, hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid and water are
chemisorbed on the active catalytic sites without dissociation and that acetic acid adsorption is the
overall rate-determining step. Good agreement between the calculated and experimental values
indicated the suitability of the proposed kinetic model.
Acknowledgment: This work is part of the Project #III 45022 supported by the Ministry of Education
and Science of the R. Serbia. The authors thank the DAAD and INFU, FR Germany, for instrument
donations.
References:
[1] B.M. Abdullah, J. Salimon (2010) Epoxidation of vegetable oils and fatty acids: catalysts,
methods and advantages, J. Applied Sci. 10:1545-1553
[2] A. Campanella, M.A. Baltanás (2006) Degradation of the oxirane ring of epoxidized vegetable
oils in liquid-liquid heterogeneous reaction systems, Chem. Eng. J. 118:141-152
[3] S. Sinadinović-Fišer, M. Janković, O. Borota (2012) Epoxidation of castor oil with peracetic acid
formed in situ in the presence of an ion exchange resin, Chem. Eng. Process. 62:106-113
66

P12
Thiol-yne Approach to Biobased Polyols: Polyurethane Synthesis and
Surface Modification
Cristina Lluch, Gerard Lligadas, Joan Carles Ronda, Marina Galià, Virginia Cádiz,
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
cristina.lluch@urv.cat
Nowadays, the use of vegetable oils and their fatty acids for the synthesis of polymers
represents an important contribution to sustainable development.1 In the last few years,
click chemistry reactions in combination with renewable resources has attracted a lot of
interest in the field of Green Chemistry.
Besides, the unceasingly demands of modern societies for new high performance
materials should be translated in fostering higher versatile polymers. The design of
smarter polymers with broader application could be accomplished by introduction of
auxiliary functional groups onto the polymer backbone, which can be further modified ondemand.2
Thiol-yne click chemistry has shown to be successful to obtain oligothioethers by UVinitiated
polymerization of 10-undecynoic acid with dithiols.3 In this work, we aim at
preparing oligothioethers from 10-undecynoic acid and its ester and hydroxyl derivatives
(methyl 10-undecynoate and 10-undecynol) via a photoinitiated thiol-yne click chemistry
approach using 3,6-dioxa-1,8-octanedithiol, as a dithiol. The combination of these
monomers in different ratios yields brush-type polyols which have been used in the
synthesis of polyurethanes with pendant acid and ester groups. This synthetic route
provides the straightforward obtention of functional polyurethanes with no need of time and
cost-consuming protection-deprotection steps.
The surface of the resulting thermosets has been tailored via a mild and efficient postpolymerization
modification allowing tuning the hydrophobic-hydrophilic properties of the
final polymer. This postpolymerization reaction could be easily extended to a wide range of
components to provide new value-added characteristics to the polymer.
1 Ronda J. C.; Lligadas, G; Galià, M; Cádiz, V. Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol., 2011, 113, 46–58.
2 Fournier, D; De Geest B.G; Du Prez, F.E. Polymer, 2009, 50, 5362-5367.
3 Türünç, O; Meier, M. A. R. J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem,. 2012, 50, 1689–1695.
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Heteropoly acids for conversion of renewable feedstocks
Ali M. Alsalme, Abdulaziz A. Alghamdi,
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saui-Arabia
aalsalme@ksu.edu.sa
Introduction
Alternative fuels developed from renewable feedstocks have attracted much interest
recently. Biodiesel is one of such alternative fuels produced from vegetable oils or animal
fats. Commercial production of biodiesel employs homogeneous alkali catalysts. However,
alkali catalysts, along with liquid acid catalysts have some limitation. Solid acid catalysts
have strong potential to replace liquid acids, eliminating separation, corrosion and
environmental problems.
α-Pinene is another important renewable feedstock. It is isomerised to produce camphene
and limonene, important intermediates and ingredients in cosmetics, food and
pharmaceutical industries. The drawback of commercial catalyst (TiO2) is its low rate and
poor selectivity.
The aim of this work was to study homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis by
heteropoly acids (HPAs) for conversion of renewable feedstocks to fuel and chemicals.
Results and Discussion
The composites under study comprised H3PW12O40 (HPW) supported on Nb2O5, ZrO2
and TiO2. Catalyst texture, state of HPW on the surface, catalyst crystallinity, nature and
strength of acid sites were investigated using different techniques including nitrogen
adsorption using the BET method, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray
diffraction (XRD), 31P MAS NMR and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) as well as
isopropanol dehydration as a test reaction.
HPAs were found to be active catalysts for the esterification of hexanoic acid and
transesterification of ethyl propanoate and ethyl hexanoate with methanol in both
homogeneous and heterogeneous liquid-phase systems. In homogeneous system, HPAs
were much more active than H2SO4 in terms of turnover frequency (TOF). TOF for HPW
supported on Nb2O5, ZrO2 and TiO2 was higher than that of the conventional solid acid
catalysts such as Amberlyst-15, HY and H-Beta. However, these catalysts suffered from
leaching and exhibited significant contribution of homogeneous catalysis by the leached
HPA.
-pinene over HPW supported on Nb2O5, ZrO2 and TiO2αIsomerisation of was carried out
in the gas-phase at 200oC. The catalytic activity, selectivity and deactivation resistance of
these catalysts were compared with “standard” HPAs such as bulk HPW, CsPW and
HPW/SiO2 and was found to be greatly dependent on the catalyst acidity. The catalysts
possessing very strong Brønsted acid sites such as bulk HPW and CsPW suffered from
intense deactivation. On the contrary, HPW supported on Nb2O5, ZrO2 and TiO2,
possessing weaker acids, exhibited more stable as well as more selective performance in
this reaction.
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Flexible polyurethane foams modified with selectively hydrogenated
rapeseed oil
Sylwia Dworakowska 1 , Dariusz Bogdal 1 , Federica Zaccheria 2 , Nicoletta Ravasio 2 ,
1 Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland; 2 Institute of Molecular Science and
Technologies, National Research Council (CNR-ISTM), Milano, Italy
sylwiadworakowska@gmail.com
Nowadays, much attention is paid to the use of polyols derived from vegetable oils for the
preparation of polyurethane foams due to both environmental as well as economical point
of view [1]. Natural oils are valuable renewable raw materials, which can be widely used in
synthesis and modification of polymers as an alternative to petrochemical sources [2].
The aim of this study was to apply vegetable oils stabilized through a selective
hydrogenation process [3] for their use in the preparation of polyols and therefore in the
synthesis of polyurethane foams. Rapeseed oil-based polyols were synthesized using
epoxidation followed by ring opening method (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. Synthesis of polyols from rapeseed oil through epoxidation and oxirane ring
opening process. R” and R”’- residues of fatty acids.
Flexible polyurethane foams were synthesized by substituting a portion of base polyether
polyol with rapeseed oil-derived polyol. The influence of these modifications on the
selected physico-chemical properties of synthesized foams was investigated.
Selective hydrogenation represent a valuable tool for vegetable oils composition
standardization. Moreover, the use of oils with a homogeneous composition and a very
high content in C18:1 improves the final properties of the flexible foams making them more
yellowing resistant due to the low level of unreacted double bonds [4].
COST Action CM0903 UBIOCHEM is acknowledged for the support in the Short Term
Scientific Missions of Sylwia Dworakowska and Federica Zaccheria.
References
1. Veenendaal B.: Polyurethanes Magazine International, 2007, 4(6) 352-359.
2. Dworakowska S.; Bogdal D.; Prociak A.: Polymers, 2012, 4(3) 1462-1477.
3. Zaccheria F.; Psaro R.; Ravasio N.; Bondioli P.: Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol., 2012, 114 24-30.
4. Heidbreder A.; Gruetzmacher R.; Nagorny U.; Westfechtel A.: US2002/0161161 A1, 2002.
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Synthesis, purification and modification of abietic acid dimer, an
interesting source of (co)monomers for the design of novel renewable
polymers
Audrey LLEVOT, Stephane CARLOTTI, Stephane GRELIER, Henri CRAMAIL,
LCPO, PESSAC, France
llevot@enscbp.fr
As petroleum resources are decreasing and environmental concerns are growing, more
attention is paid to the partial replacement of fossil resources by renewable ones. In the
plastic industry, vegetable oils are considered as suitable alternative resources thanks to
their availability and sustainability. However, the linear aliphatic structure of these
monomers is an issue when polymers with high Tg, Tm are requested. The
copolymerization of these vegetable-based monomers with cyclo-aliphatic resinic
derivatives can be a solution to enhance the material rigidity.
Rosin -or colophony- is mainly obtained by the distillation of a tall oil, a by-product of the
Kraft pulp process, or by tapping living pine trees. It is composed of 10% of neutral
compounds and 90% of isomeric organic acid mixtures, mainly abietic acid (40-60%). The
production of rosin is more than 1 million metric ton per year and is commonly used in
adhesives and inks.
In this study, abietic acid has been first dimerized following the Sinclaire’s method. A
mixture of abietic acid, dimers and trimers of abietic acid have been obtained from the
solution. Conditions of separation of the compounds have been determined using HPLC.
The adaptation of these conditions on a Flash chromatography apparatus allowed the
isolation of the dimers. GC and NMR analyses have been performed before and after the
separation. The richer fraction in dimers shows a purity of 92% by GC analyses.
In a second step, the dimers have been esterified with different alcohols under mild
conditions. Then several strategies of copolymerizations with fatty acids have been
investigated. For instance, after esterifcation with undecenol, the diester dimer of abietic
acid has been readily copolymerized with undecenyl undecenoate by ADMET (acyclic
diene metathesis) yielding novel renewable polymers. The chemical structure and features
of these polymers have been investigated by means of NMR, SEC, DSC and DMA.
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Rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of unsaturated fatty esters in
aqueous media assisted by activated carbon
Jérôme BOULANGER, Frédéric HAPIOT, Anne PONCHEL, Eric MONFLIER,
UCCS Artois, Lens, France
jerome.boulanger897@laposte.net
Concerns about the environmental impact of chemical transformations prompted chemists
to develop clean chemical processes using water as a solvent. Although appropriate for
small partially water-soluble molecules, these processes do not allow for the
transformation of hydrophobic substrates due to the mass transfer limitation between the
aqueous and the organic phase. In this context, we show that activated carbons can be
used as mass transfer additives to promote the rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of
methyl oleate and other unsaturated olefins. Due to its mesoporous and hydrophobic
character, the Nuchar®WV-B activated carbon proved to be especially effective as mass
transfer promoter. Actually, a significant increase in the conversion was observed.
Additionally, more than 90% aldehydes were formed during the course of the reaction.
When compared to other mass transfer promoters such as co-solvents or cyclodextrins,
Nuchar®WV-B was by far the most efficient. Thus, the use of activated carbons appeared
to be a suitable solution for the aqueous rhodium-catalyzed hydroformylation of
hydrophobic bio-sourced substrates.
Reference: Jérôme Boulanger, Anne Ponchel, Hervé Bricout, Frédéric Hapiot, Eric
Monflier, European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, 2012, 114, 1439–1446.
DOI:10.1002/ejlt.201200146
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Effect of some medicinal tea extracts on some oxidative parameters of
sesame oil
Mehmet Musa Özcan 1 , Nurhan – Uslu 1 , Fahad Al Juhaimi 2 ,
1 Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey; 2 King Saud University, Riyadh, Saui-Arabia
mozcan@selcuk.edu.tr
In this study, the antioxidant effect of some medicinal tea extract extracts at different
concentrations (0.3 % and 0.5 %) on the oxidation parameters of sesame oil at 80 oC was
determined. Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) was used as positive control in experiment.
All extracts exhibited antioxidant activity compared to BHA upto 14 days. When antioxidant
effect of extract concentrations were compared with BHA, the effect of 0.5 % extract
concentration was more remarkable for sesame oil upto 14 days. All of seed extracts was
effective at 80 oC in comparison with control. On the other hand, an important in both the
peroxide and viscosity values during the experiment period increase was observed. It
concluded that tea extract could be used as a oxidative inhibitor agent in oil and oil
products.
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Self-metathesis of fatty acid methyl esters: Full conversion by choosing
the appropriate plant oil
Robert Hofsäß, Hatice Mutlu, Rowena E. Montenegro, Michael A. R. Meier
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe
robert.hofsaess@googlemail.com
New lines of research have been developed since the transformation of renewables has
received major research interest both in academia and industry. In this domain, besides
carbohydrates, fats and oils are the most commonly employed natural products. Especially
the multifunctional character of triglycerides allows plant oils to be considered as valuable
alternatives to fossil reserves. Considerable interest and attention has been focused on
the transformation of oleochemicals into linear, long-chain α,ω-functionalized compounds
in order to obtain the necessary monomers for the generation of diverse aliphatic poly-α,βunsaturated
polymers. In this aspect, olefin-metathesis has the potential to enable a more
efficient conversion of renewable and fossil feedstocks to difunctional alkenes.3 Thus,
within this study, a sustainable and efficient route to diesters and thereof derived
polycondensates from plant oils was established. The high amount of polyunsaturated fatty
acids in the investigated plant oils made an efficient self-metathesis reaction possible,
since the volatile products cyclohexa-1,4-diene and hex-3-ene can be removed from the
equilibrium reaction mixture. The removal of these compounds forced the reaction towards
the desired α,ω-diester, leading to high yields (~80%). Also the scale up of the most
promising fatty acid methyl ester mixture and catalyst combination was successful,
allowing a production of the diester in higher amounts. Furthermore, efficient, quantitative
reactions were used to obtain the saturated α,ω-diester and corresponding diol. The
following polymerisation led to polyester 18,18 showing high molecular weight and high
melting point. Last but not least, it should be emphasized that the by-products of the selfmetathesis
reaction, cyclohexa-1,4-diene and hex-3-ene, are of great potential synthetic
value.
References
P. Y. Dapsens, C. Mondelli and J. Perez-Ramirez, ACS Catal., 2012, 2, 1487-1499.
U. Biermann, U. Bornscheuer, M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger and H. J. Schäfer, Angew
Chem Int Ed., 2011, 50, 3854-3871.
L. Montero de Espinosa and M. A. R. Meier, Eds. M. A. R. Meier, B. M. Weckhuysen, P. C.
A. Bruijnincx, Springer, Heidelberg (Germany), 2012.
H. Mutlu, R. Hofsäß, R. E. Montenegro and M. A. R. Meier, RSC Adv., 2013, DOI:
10.1039/C3RA40330K.
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Synthesis and Characterization of New Biodegradable Poly(linoleic
acid) / Poly(linolenic acid) Graft Copolymers
Abdulkadir Allı 1 , Pınar Geçit 1 , Sema Allı 2 , Baki Hazer 2 ,
1 Department of Chemistry, Düzce University, Düzce, Turkey; 2 Bülent Ecevit University,
Turkey
abdulkadiralli@duzce.edu.tr
Plina / PLinl peroxides were obtained by the auto-oxidation of linoleic acid (Lina) and
linolenic acid (Linl) respectively. The autooxidation of Lina and Linl under air at room
temperature rendered waxy soluble polymeric peroxide, having soluble fraction more than
98 weight percent (wt%) and containing up to 1.10-1.20 wt % of peroxide. Biodegradable
poly (linoleic acid)-g-poly(ε-caprolactone) and poly (linolenic acid)-g-poly(ε-caprolactone)
graft copolymers were synthesized via ring opening polymerization between autoxidized
linoleic acid and linolenic acid peroxide initiators's carboxylic acid groups and ε-
caprolactone monomer.
In the second part of the study, one-step synthesis of graft copolymers by ring-opening
polymerization and free radical polymerization by using polymeric linoleic acid peroxide
and polymeric linoleic acid peroxide is studied. Graft copolymers having the structure of
poly (linoleic acid)-g-p-(N-isopropylacrylamide)-g-poly(D,L-lactid) were synthesized from
polymeric linoleic acid peroxide possesing peroxide groups in the main chain by the
combination of free radical polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide and ring opening
polymerization of D,L-lactid in one-step. The principal parameters such as monomer
concentration, initiator concentration, and polymerization time that affect the one-step
polymerization reaction were evaluated.
The graft copolymers obtained were characterized by proton nuclear magnetic resonance
(1H NMR), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA)
and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) techniques. These characterization studies of
the obtained polymers indicate graft copolymers easily formed as a result of combination
free radical polymerization and ring opening polymerization in one-step.
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Diversity in ADMET monomer synthesis via Passerini three component
reactions with 10-undecenal as key building block
Ansgar Sehlinger, Lucas Montero de Espinosa, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic
Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
ansgar.sehlinger@gmail.com
The use of plant oils, fatty acids, and thereof derived platform chemicals in the synthesis of
polymers became increasingly important as a result of the limited availability of fossil oil
resources.[1] Especially castor oil is a very interesting source of building blocks for organic
synthesis. Pyrolysis of ricinoleic acid produces heptaldehyde and 10-undecenoic acid,
which can be reduced to the corresponding 10-undecenal.[2] In this work, we focused on
the use of 10-undecenal which was, besides acrylic acid and an isocyanide, the starting
material for our monomer synthesis.
The monomers were synthesized by a Passerini three component reaction (Passerini-
3CR), which is a powerful tool to obtain structurally diverse molecules in a straightforward
and atom economic fashion.[3] The one-pot synthesis of the mentioned starting materials
leads to a library of asymmetric α,ω-dienes, containing an acrylate and a terminal double
bond in the backbone. Such substrates show high cross-metathesis selectivity and thus
polymerize strictly head-to-tail in an acylic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization.[4,5]
This approach enables us to control the polymer structure and, in combination with the
Passerini-3CR synthesis, to vary the functional groups of the repeating unit.
Additionally, an amphiphilic block copolymer has been made by adding a PEG480-acrylate
to the reaction mixture. This monofunctional acrylate acts as a selective chain-stopper
because it reacts only with one end of the polymer. Thus, we could show control over the
molecular weight of the growing chain by using different ratios of monomer and chain
stopper. Furthermore, the polymers thus obtained present acrylate end-groups, which
allow for further post-modifications.
[1] L. Montero de Espinosa, M. A. R. Meier, Eur. Polym. J. 2011, 47, 837.
[2] H. Mutlu, M. A. R. Meier, Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol. 2010, 112, 10.
[3] M. Passerini, Gazz. Chem. Ital. 1921, 51, 126.
[4] A. K. Chatterjee, T. L. Choi, D. P. Sanders, R. H. Grubbs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003,
125, 11360.
[5] L. Montero de Espinosa, M. A. R. Meier, Chem. Commun. 2011, 49, 1908.
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Malate production by Aspergillus orzyae
Katrin Brzonkalik, Marina Bernhardt, Christoph Syldatk, Anke Neumann,
KIT - Technical Biology, Karlsruhe, Germany
katrin.brzonkalik@kit.edu
L-malic acid is a C4 dicarboxylic organic acid and considered as a promising chemical
building block. It can be applied as food preservative and acidulant, in rust removal
because of its chelator properties and as polymerization starter unit due to its
bifunctionality. Up to now it is produced chemically from crude oil via maleic anhydride.
The mould Aspergillus oryzae produces malic acid in large quantities from glucose and
other carbon sources. The microbial production of organic acids from renewable sources
has the potential to be a sustainable alternative to petroleum and to reduce greenhouse
gases as CO2 fixation is involved in microbial biosynthesis.
In this study the production conditions were optimized in shaking flask experiments and a
bioreactor fermentation was established to produce malic acid in large quantities. At 35°C
up to 52 g/L malic acid were produced which corresponds to a molar yield of 1.13.
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Monitoring of Glyceride Synthesis in Multiphase System by ATR-Fourier
Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Sören Baum 1 , Martin Schilling 2 , Fabien Cabirol 2 , Lutz Hilterhaus 1 , Andreas Liese 1 ,
Institute of Technical Biocatalysis, TH Hamburg, Germany; 2 Evonik Industries AG
soeren.baum@tuhh.de
The assay of mono-, di-, and triglycerides in a multiphase system is of great importance in
several industrial fields. Mixtures with a high content of monoglycerides with different fatty
acid chain lengths are broadly used as emulsifiers and stabilizers for a variety of products
in the food and cosmetics industry1. During synthesis of these components, it is of
desirable to achieve a high content of monoglycerides, whereby the di- or triglyceride
content should be as low as possible. Therefore the analysis of the product composition
and reaction selectivity plays an important role for the process control in the production
process of glycerides.
Conventional analytical methods for glycerides are gas chromatography (GC) or
highpressure liquid chromatography2, which are of limited suitability for multiphase
systems. This work demonstrates an in-situ differentiation between mono-, di- and
triglycerides in a multiphase system by attenuated total reflectance (ATR) Fourier
transform infrared spectroscopy. As a model system the enzymatic esterification of
glycerol with lauric acid was analyzed. The reaction was carried out in a bubble column
reactor containing four phases (two liquid phases of glycerol and lauric acid, air as
gaseous phase, and a heterogeneous catalyst as solid phase).
For the study of this multicomponent system, a chemometric model was generated based
on the calibration of the pure components only3. Deviations from the offline data
generated by GC were observed with respect to monoglyceride content during the course
of the reaction. Therefore, the calibration was repeated applying detailed GC datasets of
real reaction samples. Internal as well as external validation (cross validated and test-set
validated) showed significant lower deviations between offline and online data. The
quantities of lauric acid and 1-monolaurin, 2-monolaurin, 1,3-dilaurin, 1,2-dilaurin and
trilaurin could be monitored over the course of the reaction. Thus, this technology has the
potential to give accurate in situ results allowing its implementation as process control
technology.
(1) Hasenhuettl G.A, Hartel R.W, Food Emulsifiers and Their Application, 2nd ed.,
Springer: New York, 2010.
(2) Indrasti D, Man, Y. B. C, Chin S. T, Mustafa S, Hashim D.M, Manaf M.A, J. A. Oil
Chem. Soc. 2010, 87(11), 1255–1262.
(3) Müller J.J, Baum S, Hilterhaus L, Eckstein M, Thum O, Liese A, Simultaneous
Determination of Mono-, Di- and Triglycerides in Multiphase Systems by Online FT-IR
Spectroscopy. Anal. Chem., 2011, 83(24), 9321-9327.
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Pressure sensitive adhesives from renewable resources
Wiebke Maassen, Norbert Willenbacher, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic
Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
wiebke.maassen@kit.edu
The so-called pressure-sensitive adhesives represent an important segment, which are
used in different applications like labels, tapes and foils or special construction adhesives
which are employed both for industrial and domestic purposes. However, these adhesives
are almost exclusively petroleum-based synthetic products. Thus, currently ongoing
research both in academia and industry is the shift from petrochemical adhesives to those
incorporating natural and renewable materials. In line with this concept, the aim of the
proposed projectis to evaluate the ability to produce such adhesives on the basis of
monomers which are synthesized using various fatty acids derived from vegetable oils.
Appropriate polymers have been synthesized via standard radical polymerization
procedures in bulk and solvent. It has been shown that the adhesion properties of the
characterized homo-polymers are as good as equal polymers and co-polymers used in
literature before[1]. Regarding a resources-protective and environmental friendly
processing, the adhesives were manufactured successfully by means of miniemulsion
polymerization as aqueous dispersions showing almost the same adhesive properties[2].
Within the bulk and solvent based polymerization we were able to optimize the adhesive
properties by using not only different bio based monomers for the polymer synthesis, but
also by varying the degree of polymerization and cross-linking, as well as by using comonomers
to get control over the visco-elastic properties leading to higher values in the
storage and loss modulus. The visco-elastic and adhesive properties have been
characterized using rheological[3] and mechanical standard measurements e.g. tack and
peel tests[4]. For the first time it has been shown that by simple deprotection of the ester
end group of the polymer side chain, one can improve the cohesion by generating
hydrogen bonds in-between the bio based polymer.
References
[1] S.P. Bunker, R.P. Wool, J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem., Vol. 40, 451–458, 2002.
[2]S. Bunker et al., International Journal of Adhesion & Adhesives, 23, 29–38,2003.
[3] S.-G. Chu, L.-H. Lee, editor.,New York: Plenum Press, 1991.
[4]A. Zosel, J. Adhes., 18, 265-271, 1998.
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Renewable aromatic aliphatic copolyesters derived from rapeseed
Stefan Oelmann, Oliver Kreye, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic
Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
stefan-oelmann@versanet.de
Novel (co)polyesters were synthesized from rapeseed as a valuable renewable
resource.[1] The aliphatic monomers were obtained from oleic and erucic acid via thiol-ene
addition. We already prepared monomers and polymers from renewable sources via this
method.[2] Moreover, we -diene monomers of ferulic acid,ωdemonstrated the facile
synthesis of α, a phenolic acid contains in several natural products, and the -diene
monomers from oleic andωsuccessful copolymerization with α, erucic acid by applying
ADMET and thiol-ene addition polymerization.[3]
Copolyesters with different ratios of these monomers were prepared via base-catalyzed
transesterification reactions under neat conditions with different catalysts. 1,5,7-
Triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-en (TBD), titanium(IV)-isopropoxid (Ti(Oi-Pr)4) and tin(II) 2-
ethylhexanoat (Sn(Oct)2) were tested as catalysts. The best results regarding high
molecular weights were obtained applying TBD as catalyst. Monomers and polymerss
were fully characterized and the polymers were additionally characterized for their thermal
properties. Furthermore, the monomer synthesis was optimized in order to achieve high
yielding and environmentally benign synthetic procedures. Particular focus was put on
applying less toxic reagents, and to minimize chemical waste, in order to meet the
requirements of green chemistry.
[1] O. Kreye, S. Oelmann, M. A. R. Meier, Macromol. Chem. Phys. 2013, in preparation.
[2] O. Türünç, M. Firdaus, G. Klein, M. A. R. Meier, Fatty acid derived renewable
polyamides via thiol–ene additions, Green Chem. 2012, 14, 2577-2583.
[3] O. Kreye, T. Tóth, M. A. R. Meier, Copolymers derived from rapeseed derivatives via
ADMET and thiol-ene addition, Eur. Polym. J. 2011, 47, 1804-1816.
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Influence of the double bond configuration on the product composition
of Rh-catalyzed maleinisation of monounsaturated fatty acids
Steven Eschig, Tunga Salthammer, Claudia Philipp, Fraunhofer Institute for Wood
Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut, Braunschweig, Germany
steven.eschig@wki.fraunhofer.de
The synthesis of fatty acid based 3,6-disubstituted-1,2,3,6-tetrahydrophthalic anhydrides
(THPA) is a promising opportunity to receive biobased substitutes for monomers like
phthalic anhydride, trimellitic acid and their di-, tetra- or hexahydroderivates, which are
commonly used in polycondensation processes. Especially the 6-membered carbon ring is
of great interest because it strongly influences the properties of the resulting polyesters, e.
g. the final hardness. The synthesis of such rings can be achieved on different pathways.
Well known and frequently studied are the Diels-Alder reactions, where conjugated fatty
acids are used as diene component and converted with a dienophile like maleic anhydride
to give the corresponding 3,6-disubstituted-1,2,3,6-THPA.[1]
Another possibility to synthesize fatty acid based THPA-derivatives is the Rh-catalyzed
maleinisation which has already been investigated for oleic[2] and linoleic acid.[3]
Compared to the Diels-Alder-reaction, it is the main advantage of the Rh-catalysis, that it
allows synthesizing 6-membered carbon rings from non-conjugated as well as from
monounsaturated fatty acids. Our previous work has shown that the Rh-catalyzed
maleinisation of linoleic acid leads exclusively to the required cyclic substructures.[3] In
contrast to that Behr and Handwerk[2] reported that the maleinisation of oleic acids leads
also to acyclic byproducts but without detailed investigations on the selectivity of the
different catalysts.
Therefore two different catalysts, Rh(OAc)2 and RhCl3(H2O)3, being already mentioned
by Behr and Handwerk[2] to be suitable, were investigated. The maleinated oleic acid was
esterified with methanol and the resulting product mixtures were analyzed by HPLC. The
corresponding chromatograms (reaction a, reaction c) are shown in Fig. 1. Thereby the
peaks between 30-32 min can be allocated to the cyclic products, whereas the peaks
between 34-36 min belong to the acyclic products.
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In addition to that it was found that the cis-configurated double bond of oleic acid was
isomerized into the thermodynamically favored trans-configuration during the reaction. To
investigate the influence of this observed isomerization on the final product composition,
the Rh-catalyzed maleinisation was also carried out with elaidic acid followed by an
esterification with methanol as shown in scheme 1.
All in all it was found that the selectivity towards the cyclic products is much higher for
Rh(OAc)2 than for RhCl3(H2O)3. Furthermore it was observed that the amount of elaidic
acid decreases the selectivity towards the cyclic products. These results allow deducing
new insights of the ongoing mechanism.
A better understanding of this mechanism might give new opportunities to develop new
catalysts which may increase the yield of the maleinated products as well as the selectivity
towards the preferred, fatty acid based, cyclic THPAs.
References:
[1] H. J. Schäfer, M. aus dem Kahmen, Fett/Lipid 1998, 100, 227-235
[2] A. Behr, H.-P. Handwerk, Fat Sci. Technol. 1992, 94, 204-208
[3] S. Eschig, C. Philipp, T. Salthammer, Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol. 2013, 115, 101- 110
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α-Arylation of saturated fatty acids: a sustainable approach to
renewable monomers?
Nicolai Kolb, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
nicolai.kolb@student.kit.edu
With the ongoing limitation of fossil resources, it is today’s biggest challenge in chemistry
to develop sustainable approaches for daily-life commodity chemicals. In this context, fatty
acids have been shown to be a promising feedstock for polymer chemistry since they can
be derivatized towards renewable monomers in numerous ways.[1] However, these
derivatizations were mainly carried out with unsaturated fatty acids where the double bond
can be used for many reactions. Saturated fatty acids on the other hand have been barely
used because of their limited modification possibilities.
We have recently presented a method for the direct conversion of saturated and
unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters towards malonate derivatives by using the α-acidity of
the ester for the derivatization.[2]
Another approach to use the α-acidity would be the α-arylation reaction.[3] During this
reaction the ester is deprotonated with a strong base to the corresponding enolate, which
can be coupled with aryl halides. This reaction has been intensively studied with shortchain
esters, mainly tert-butyl acetate. However, we found that this arylation reaction is
also possible with saturated fatty acid esters. Furthermore, we tested the arylation reaction
with 1,4-dibromobenzene in order to obtain aryl-bridged diesters for the preparation of
renewable monomers or gemini-detergents. The synthesis of these diesters was
successful for saturated fatty acid esters of different chain lengths (C8-C18) with isolated
yields around 60-70%.
Literature:
[1] a) U. Biermann, U. Bornscheuer, M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger, H. J. Schäfer, Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3854; b) M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger, U. S. Schubert, Chem.
Soc. Rev. 2007, 36, 1788.
[2] a) N. Kolb, M. A. R. Meier, Green Chem. 2012, 14, 2429; b) N. Kolb, M. A. R. Meier,
Eur. Poly. J. 2012, accepted.
[3] F. Bellina, R. Rossi, Chem. Rev. 2009, 110, 1082.
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P27
New transfromations of ricinoleic acid derivatives
Manuel Hartweg, Hatice Mutlu, Michael A. R. Meier, Institute of Organic Chemistry,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
manuel.hartweg@gmx.de
In order to replace depleting fossil resources for organic synthesis, and especially for
polymer chemistry, an increasing interest in renewable feedstock becomes more important
in industry as well as research.[1] Inexpensive, readily available commodity oils containing
unusual fatty acids, while having no nutritive value, can be regarded as feedstock of
choice. With respect to chemical transformations, ricinoleic acid [(12R,9Z)-12-
hydroxyoctadecenoic acid,] – the main component for castor oil – has a broad synthetic
potential for both industrial and academic uses, based primarily upon the unique presence
of the hydroxyl group.[2] There are several examples for the utilization of ricinoleic acid,
both direct and indirect, or its derivates for the production of a broad range of functional
molecules, potentially accessible by using efficient and selective (catalytic) methods.[2]
Therefore, the aim of this work was to investigate new routes towards further utilization of
methyl ricinoleate. Along this idea, we focused on the development of a more sustainable
methodology for the synthesis of conjugated linoleic acids (CLAs) that uses dimethyl
carbonate as a green reagent/solvent. The use of TBD as an environmentally friendly base
in the dehydration of ricinoleic acid was thus our goal. Our results revealed that in addition
to the desired CLAs, different ricinoleic acid derivatives were obtained. Depending on the
starting derivative of ricinoleic acid and the applied reaction conditions, we observed
ricinoleic acid based lactones and lactams as by-products or major products.
References:
[1] U. Biermann, U. Bornscheuer, M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger and H. J. Schäfer, Angew.
Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3854.
[2] H. Mutlu and M. A. R. Meier, Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Technol. 2010, 112, 10.
83

P28
Self-metathesis derived renewable 1,4-cyclohexadiene and its potential
applications
Sarah Wald, Michael A. R. Meier, KIT, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe, Germany
sarah.wald@student.kit.edu
In the last few years, renewable resources, especially fats and oils, are getting more and
more interesting because of decreasing fossil feedstocks and global warming.[1] One
important oil for renewable polymers is chia seed oil, which contains, just like linseed oil,
high amounts of α-linolenic acid.[2] The methyl-esters of this highly unsaturated oil can be
used for self-metathesis reactions to obtain C18-diesters and volatile products, like 1,4-
cyclohexadiene and 3-hexene.[3] 1,4-Cyclohexadiene can also be synthesized from
soybean oil via olefin metathesis without purification of the oil and simple distillation. The
product can, after isomerization to 1,3-cyclohexadiene, be used for polymerization to
renewable polycyclohexadiene.[4] The self-metathesis byproduct, 1,4-cyclohexadiene, can
also be used to prepare monomers for polysulfides and polysulfones, as will be discussed
within this contribution. Therefore, the 1,4-cyclohexadiene was reacted with an excess of
thioacetic acid in a thiol-ene addition to obtain a mixture of regioisomers (S,S'-
cyclohexane-1,4-diyl diethanethioate and S,S'-cyclohexane-1,3-diyl diethanethioate). After
saponification of the mixture, the monomers cyclohexane-1,4-dithiol and cyclohexane-1,3-
dithiol, which can be polymerized via thiol-ene-polymerisation with 1,7-octadiene or 1-
octyne to polysulfides, were obtained. After oxidation of these polysulfides, the
polysulfones were obtained by simple oxidation with hydrogen peroxide.
References
[1] M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger, U. S. Schubert, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2007, 36, 1788-1802.
[2] R. Ayerza, W. Coates, Industrial Crops and Products 2011, 34 (2), 1366-1371.
[3] H. Mutlu , R. Hofsäß , R. E. Montenegro, M. A. R. Meier, RSC Adv. 2013.
[4] R. T. Mathers, M. J. Shreve, E. Meyler, K. Damodaran, D. F. Iwig, D. J. Kelley,
Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2011, 32, 1338–1342.
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P29
Mesoporous niobium-silica materials for the epoxidation of vegetable
oil-derived mixtures of unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs)
Cristina Tiozzo 1 , Nicoletta Ravasio 1 , Rinaldo Psaro 1 , Dariusz Bogdal 2 , Sylwia
Dworakowska 2 , Matteo Guidotti 1 ,
1 CNR-Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technologies, Milan, Italy; 2 Cracow University
of Technology, Cracow, Polan
c.tiozzo@istm.cnr.it
Functionalized FAMEs constitute interesting raw materials for obtaining polyurethane materials
suitable for many applications, e.g. coatings as well as flexible and rigid foams. By introducing
hydroxyl groups at the position of unsaturated double bonds, it is possible to obtain polyols which
are one of the major components in polyurethane synthesis. Vegetable oil-derived unsaturated
FAMEs are therefore viable building blocks for the production of polymers from renewable
resources.1,2 Niobium-based silicates have already shown promising performances as
heterogeneous catalysts for liquid-phase oxidation epoxidation of alkenes and FAMEs.3,4 These
solids in fact present a high stability and robustness towards metal leaching and hydrolysis. This
feature is a noteworthy advantage for their use in the presence of aqueous H2O2 or in watercontaining
media.
The Nb/SiO2 materials studied in this work were prepared by deposition of Nb(Cp)2Cl2 onto the
surface of different pure silica supports characterized by various textural features following a dry
impregnation (solventless) approach5 (Fig.1). It was thus possible to obtain catalysts with a tailored
metal loading and an optimized surface active site density. The catalysts were used as
heterogeneous catalysts for the selective epoxidation, in the presence of aqueous hydrogen
peroxide, of a set of pure model unsaturated FAMEs as well as of FAME mixtures prepared from
food-grade high-oleic rapeseed oil, as such or after selective partial hydrogenation, in order to
maximize the content of monounsaturated components.6
OH
OH OH
SiO 2
+ Nb
Cl
Cl
deposition
1) liquid-phase grafting
or
2) dry impregnation
calcination
O 2
500°C
O
Nb
O O O
All the catalysts were particularly active in the first hour of reaction. Then, the formation of heavy
deposits on the catalyst surface gradually leads to deactivation. The selectivity to epoxide was in
all cases excellent and only minor amounts of side-products were found in solution. The catalysts
did not show any leaching of active Nb species and proved to be easily recoverable and reusable
after a rapid intermediate calcination step.
Yields in methyl epoxystearate as high as 70% were achieved on pure methyl oleate (4:1 oxidant
to FAME ratio). On rapeseed-derived FAME mixtures (obtained by direct transesterification of the
vegetable oil), yields to monoepoxy-FAMEs (epoxystearate and epoxyoleate) up to 55% and 45%
were attained, starting from hydrogenated or non-hydrogenated mixtures, respectively. These data
are among the best results obtained so far for the epoxidation of unsaturated FAMEs over solid
oxidic catalysts with hydrogen peroxide.
er
Regione Lombardia (VeLiCa Project) and COST Action CM0903 UBIOCHEM are acknowledged
for financial support.
SiO 2
[1] J.O. Metzger et. al, J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem., 44 (2005) 634
[2] Z.S. Petrovic, I. Cvetkovic, Contemporary Materials, III-1 (2012) 63
[3] M. A. Feliczak-Guzik, I. Nowak, Catal. Today, 142 (2009) 288
[4] Tiozzo C. et al., Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Tech., 115 (2013) 86 [5] A. Gallo, C. Tiozzo, R. Psaro, F. Carniato, M.
Guidotti, J. Catal., 298 (2013) 77
[6] F. Zaccheria, R. Psaro, et al., Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Tech., 114 (2012) 24
85

P30
Isomerizing ethenolysis of functionalized olefins
Sabrina Baader, Dominik M. Ohlmann, Lukas J. Gooßen, Fachbereich Chemie,
Organische Chemie, TU Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
baader@chemie.uni-kl.de
The combination of [Pd(μ-Br)(tBu3P)]2 with a Hoveyda-Grubbs II catalyst has been
found to efficiently promote the cross-metathesis between substituted alkenes and
ethylene, while continuously migrating the double bond along the alkenyl chain.[1] When
allylarenes such as the natural products eugenol, safrol or estragol were treated with
this catalyst under ethylene pressure, they were cleanly converted into the
corresponding styrenes along with propylene gas (Scheme 1). This process is of
particular value in the context of renewable chemical synthesis, i.e. for incorporating
naturally occurring allylarenes, some of which are available on ton scale, into the
chemical value chain. This conversion of the natural product eugenol is a good
example of the potential economic impact of this transformation, as the corresponding
vinylarene (465 €/100 g) is of substantially higher commercial value than the eugenol
starting material (16 €/100 g).
Another application of isomerizing metathesis is the efficient conversion of technical
quality fatty acids into industrially useful multi-component blends, consisting of
functionalized olefins with tuneable chain length distributions. [2]
References:
[1] S. Baader, D. M. Ohlmann, L. J. Gooßen, publication submitted.
[2] a) D. M. Ohlmann, L. J. Gooßen, M. Dierker, patent application, 2011. b) D. M.
Ohlmann, N. Tschauder, J.-P. Stockis, K. Gooßen, M. Dierker, L. J. Gooßen, J. Am.
Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 13716-13729.
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P31
Synthesis of Oleic Acid Based-Polymeric Lattices through Emulsion
and Miniemulsion Polymerization
Alan T. Jensen 1 , Claudia Sayer 2 , Pedro H. H. Araújo 2 , Fabricio Machado 1 ,
University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil; 2 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis
– SC, Brazil
pedro@enq.ufsc.br
The use of vegetable oils and their derivatives as precursor monomers in polymerization
reactions has increased each day due to their renewable origin, unlike most materials
obtained from fossil fuel sources. Among them, oleic acid (OA) deserves special attention
due to the high availability and ease of chemical modification, mainly when the double
bounds are considered.
This work presents experimental results from copolymerizations of acrylated methyl oleate
(AMO) and styrene (Sty) – CAMOSty carried out in both emulsion and miniemulsion
polymerization systems. CAMOSty copolymers produced by emulsion polymerization
exhibited narrow particle size distributions (PSDs), average particle size in the range from
116 nm to 128 nm and conversions lying in the range of 96 % to 100 %. Despite the high
conversion achieved during the emulsion reactions, the amount of AMO in the monomeric
organic phase is limited to 15 wt.% to avoid reaction medium destabilization and
consequent coagulation of the polymer particles possibly due to the low solubility of methyl
oleate in aqueous phase that hinders the diffusion of AMO from the monomer droplets to
the growing polymer particles. In order to overcome problems with the low solubility and
mass transfer of AMO through the aqueous phase a miniemulsion polymerization process
has been employed as the loci of polymerization is the monomer droplets. It was observed
that the AMO and Sty can be successfully copolymerized with the additional advantage of
using higher amounts of AMO in the organic polymerizing mixture, which permits the
incorporation AMO fractions higher than 80 wt.%. In the miniemulsion system, high
conversion values were also attained presenting average particle size in the range from
150 nm to 190 nm. Although both processes allow proper copolymerization of AMO and
Sty, leading to formation of polymer particles with monodisperse PSDs, comparatively,
miniemulsion polymerization process is more attractive due to the high stability of
polymerization reactions performed with high concentrations of AMO.
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P32
Synthesis of polyurethane nanoparticles from renewable resources by
miniemulsion polymerization
Alexsandra Valerio 1 , Sandro R. P. da Rocha 2 , Claudia Sayer 1 , Pedro H. H. Araújo 1 ,
1 Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis – SC, Brazil; 2 Wayne State University
pedro@enq.ufsc.br
Polyurethanes are one of the most versatile polymers being the final product easily
tailored, even during the production process. One of the reasons for that is the broad
range of polyols (e.g., molecular weight, functionalities) that could be employed. Recently,
the development of colloidal delivery systems from biodegradable and biocompatible
polyurethanes (PU) has attracted increasing interest as the highly variable synthetic
chemistry of PU may be exploited to generate polymers having properties ranging from
very soft elastomers to very rigid plastics.
In this work we will report the preparation of PU nanoparticles using
isophoronediisocyanate (IPDI) and different polyols, obtained from renewable resources:
castor oil, glycerol and poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL), through miniemulsion polymerization.
Poly(ethylene glycol) of different molar masses (PEG 400, PEG 600, and PEG 1000) were
also added to the reaction medium partially substituting the other polyols. As those
particles were designed for drug delivery, attaching PEG to the outer surface of the
particles improves the biodisponibility of the polymeric nanoparticles. Results show that
the synthesis of polyurethane nanoparticles by miniemulsion polymerization using polyols
from renewable resources is a particularly interesting and facile strategy for the formation
of biodegradable and biocompatible nanoparticles, and for the control of the chemistry of
the particle shell.
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List of participants
89

Muhammad Yusuf Abduh
University of Groningen
Nijenborgh 4
9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
p262868@rug.nl
Dr. Khalid A. Alamry
King Abdulaziz University
Aljammah 80203
21589 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
k_alamry@yahoo.com
Dr. Abdulaziz Ali Alghamdi
King Saud University
King Khaled Street 2455
11451 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
aalghamdia@ksu.edu.sa
Jessica Allard
NOVANCE
Rue des Rives de l'oise 1
60280 Venette, France
j.allard@novance.com
Dr. Abdulkadir Alli
Department of Chemistry
Konuralp 1
81620 Duzce, Turkey
abdulkadiralli@duze.edu.tr
Dr. Ali M. Alsalme
King Saud University
College of Science 5
11451 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
aalsalme@ksu.edu.sa
Thorsten Anders
Fraunhofer ICT
Joseph-von-Fraunhoferstr. 7
76327 Pfinztal, Germany
thorsten.anders@ict.fraunhofer.de
Prof. Dr. Pedro H. H. Araújo
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Departamento de Engenharia Quimica e
Engenharia de Alimentos
Cx. Postal 476
88040-970 Florianópolis- SC, Brazil
pedro@eng.ufsc.br
Dr. Matthias Arndt
Clariant Produkte GmbH
Industriepark Höchst D 560
65926 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
matthias.arndt@clariant.com
Prof. Dr. Luc Averous
University of Strasbourg
Bio Team
25 rue Becquerel
67087 Strasbourg, France
luc.averous@unistra.fr
Sabrina Baader
TU Kaiserslautern
Fachbereich Chemie, Organische
Chemie
Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 54
67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
baader@chemie.uni-kl.de
Prof. Dr. Joel Barrault
CNRS-LACCO
Avenue du Recteur Pineau 40
86022 Poitiers, France
joel.barrault@univ-poitiers.fr
Benjamin Basler
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
bbasler88@gmail.com
Sören Baum
Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
Denickestr. 15
21073 Hamburg, Germany
soeren.baum@tuhh.de
Christian Beck
Wissenschaftszentrum Straubing
Schulgasse 16
94315 Straubing, Germany
c.beck@wz-straubing.de
Dr. Toine Biemans
Worlée Chemie GmbH
Söllerstr.12
21481 Lauenburg, Germany
tbiemans@worlee.de
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Dr. Ursula Biermann
University of Oldenburg
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11
26111 Oldenburg, Germany
ursula.biermann@uni-oldenburg.de
Dr. Rolf Blaauw
Wageningen UR Food & Biobased
Research
Bornse Weilanden 9
6708 WG Wageningen, Netherlands
rolf.blaauw@wur.nl
Prof. Dr. Uwe Bornscheuer
Greifswald University
Institute of Biochemistry
Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4
17487 Greifswald, Germany
bornsche@uni-greifswald.de
Jérôme Boulanger
UCCS Artois
Jean Souvraz SP 18
62307 Lens, France
jerome.boulanger897@laposte.net
Dr. Christian Bruneau
Université de Rennes 1
Avenue du Général Leclerc 263
35042 Rennes, France
christian.bruneau@univ-rennes1.fr
Dr. Katrin Brzonkalik
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute for Process Engineering in Life
Science, Section II: Technical Biology
Engler.Bunte-Ring 1
76131 Karlsruhe
katrin.brzonkalik@kit.edu
Dr. Sylvain Caillol
ENSCM
Ecole Normale 8
34296 Montpellier, France
sylvain.caillol@enscm.fr
Priscilla B. Cardoso
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Caixa Postal 476
88010970 Florianopolis, Brazil
Dr. Thibaud Caulier
Solvay
Rue de Ransbeek 310
1120 Brussels, Belgium
thibaud.caulier@solvay.com
Dr. Bret Chrisholm
North Dakota State University
Research Park Drive 1805
58102 Fargo, United States
bret.chrisholm@ndsu.edu
Sunanda Dasgupta
Brandenburg University of Technology
Siemens Halske Ring 8
03046 Cottbus, Germany
dasgupta@tu-cottbus.de
Dr. Manfred Diedering
Alberdingk Boley GmbH
Düsseldorfer Str. 39
47829 Krefeld. Germanyowa.kit.edu
m.diedering@alberdingk-boley.de
Dr. Markus Dierker
BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH
Henkelstr. 67
40589 Düsseldorf, Germany
markus.dierker@basf.com
Dr. Christophe Duquenne
Arkema
Rue Jacques Taffanel Alata
60550 Verneul-en-Halatte, France
christophe.duquenne@arkema.com
Sylwia Dworakowska
Cracow University of Technology
Warszawska 24
31-155 Cracow, Poland
sylwiadworakowska@gmail.com
Dr. Stephan Enthaler
Technical University of Berlin
Str. des 17.Juni 135/ C2
10623 Berlin, Germany
stephan.enthaler@tu-berlin.de
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Steven Esching
Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research
Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institute
Bienroder Weg 54E
38108 Braunschweig, Germany
steven.esching@wki.fraunhofer.de
Dr. Martin Fängewisch
Croda GmbH
Herrenpfad-Süd 33
41334 Nettetal, Germany
matrin.faengewisch@croda.com
Maulidan Firdaus
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
maulidan.firdaus@student.kit.edu
Dr. Jürgen Fischer
ADM Researche GmbH
Seehafenstr. 24
21079 Hamburg, Germany
meike.rademacher@adm.com
Stephanie Flitsch
University of Graz
Heinrichstr. 28
8010 Graz, Austria
stephanie.flitsch@uni-graz.at
Marc R. L. Furst
University of St. Andrews
North Haugh 1
KY16 9ST St Andrews, United Kingdom
mrlf2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Jakob Gebhard
Institute of Technical Biocatalysis
Denickerstr. 15
21071 Hamburg, Germany
jakob.gebhard@tuhh.de
Olga Govedarica
University of Novi Sad
Faculty of Technolgy
Bul. Cara Lazara 1
21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
oborota@uns.ac.rs
Michael Graß
Evonik Industries AG
Paul-Baumann-Str. 1
45772 Marl, Germany
michael01.grass@evonik.com
Prof. Dr. Dmitry G. Gusev
Wilfrid Laurier University
University Avenue West 75
N2L 3C5 Waterloo, Canada
dgoussev@hotmail.com
Prof. Dr. Frédéric Hapiot
UCCS Artois
Rue Jean Souvraz 00
62307 Lens, France
frederic.hapiot@univ-artois.fr
Manuel Hartweg
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
manuel.hartweg@gmx.de
Dr. Jürgen Herwig
Evonik Instustries AG
Paul-Baumann-Str. 1
45772 Marl, Germany
juergen.herwig@evonik.com
Robert Hofsäß
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
robert.hofsaess@googlemail.com
Dr. Norbert Holst
Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe
Hofplatz 1
18267 Gülzow, Germany
n.holst@fnr.de
Thimo Huber
Wissenschaftszentrum Straubing
Schulgasse 16
94315 Straubing, Germany
t.huber@wt-straubing.de
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Veronika Huber
FH Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
Schulgasse 16
94315 Straubing, Germany
v.huber@wz-straubing.de
Bernd Jakob
University
Gausstr. 20
42097 Wuppertal, Germany
bjakob@uni-wuppertal.de
Prof. George John
The City College of CUNY
Department of Chemistry
160 Convent Avenue
10031 New York, United States
gglucose@gmail.com
Mandeep Kaur
Thapar University
Bhadson Road 9465236880
147004 Patial, India
mandeepthapar@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Bert Klein Gebbink
Utrecht University
Universiteitsweg 99
3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands
r.j.m.kleingebbink@uu.nl
Nicolai Kolb
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
nicolai.kolb@student.kit.edu
Dr. Gunther Kraft
FUCHS Europe Schmierstoffe
Friesenheimerstr. 19
68169 Mannheim, Germany
gunther.kraft@fuchs-europe.de
Dr. Oliver Kreye
Karlsruher Institut of Technologie
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
oliver_kreye@gmx.de
Dennis Kugele
Karlsruher Institute of Technologie
Klosterweg 28
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
denniskugele@web.de
Dr. Karsten Lange
University of Wuppertal
Gaussstr. 20
42097 Wuppertal, Germany
klange@uni-wuppertal.de
Ralph Lange
KIT Karlsruhe
Hagsfelder Allee 10
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
ralph.lange@student.kit.edu
Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
University of Salamanca
Palacio Valdés 19 4A
37007 Salamanca, Spain
rodrigoledesma@usal.es
Dr. Dirk Leinweber
Clariant Produkte GmbH
Industriepark Höchst D 560
65926 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
claudia.weichel@clariant.com
Dr. Gerhard Leinz
Alberdingk Boley GmbH
Düsseldorferstr. 53
478229 Krefeld
dr.leinz@alberdingk-boley.de
Audrey AL LLevot
LCPO
Avenue Pey Verland 16
33607 Pessac. France
llevot@enscbp.fr
Cristina Lluch Porres
Rovira i Virgili University
Marcel.li Domingo s/n
43007 Tarrangona, Spain
cristina.llunch@urv.cat
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Mel Luetkens
Elevance Renewable Science
Davey Road 2501
Woodridge, 60517 Illinois, United States
vera.zaccariello@elevance.com
Wiebke Maassen
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Gotthard-Franz-Straße 3
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
wiebke.maassen@kit.edu
Chandu S. Madankar
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Hauz Khas
110016 New Delhi, India
chandumadankar@gmail.com
Dr. Claudia Martinez
BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH
Henkelstr. 67
40589 Düsseldorf
claudia.a.martinez@basf.com
Sergio Martinez Silvestre
Instituto de Technolgoia Auimicra
Av. Tarongers s/n
46022 Valencia, Spain
sermars4@itq.upv.es
Prof. Dr. Michael A. R. Meier
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
m.a.r.meier@kit.edu
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Metzger
abiosus e.V.
Bloherfelder Str. 239
26129 Oldenburg, Germany
metzger@abiosus.org
Prof. Dr. Martin Mittelbach
University of Graz
Heinrichstr. 28
8010 Graz, Austria
stephanie.flitsch@gmail.com
Dr. Aurélie Morel
Novance
Venette BP 20609
60206 Compiégne, France
a.morel@novance.com
Hermine HNM NSA Moto
Université de Toulouse, INP-Ensiacet
Allée Emilie Monso 4
31030 Toulouse, France
hermine.nsamoto@ensiacet.fr
Zéphirin Mouloungui
INRA
Allé Emile Monso 4
31030 Toulouse, France
zephirin.mouloungui@ensiacet.fr
Prof. Dr. Rolf Mülhaupt
University Freiburg
Institution of Macromolecular Chemistry
Stefan-Meier-Str. 31
79104 Freiberg, Germany
rolf.muelhaupt@makro.uni-freiburg.de
Janett Müller
Universität Greifswald
Schuhhagen 28/29
17489 Greifswald, Germany
janett.mueller@uni-greifswald.de
Dr. Hatice Mutlu
Karlsruher Institut of Technologie
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
hatice.mutlu@kit.edu
Dr. Anke Neumann
Karlsruher Institut of Technologie
Institut für Bio- und Lebensmitteltechnik
Bereich II: Technische Biologie
Engler-Bunte-Ring 1
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
anke.neumann@kit.edu
Huy Hoang Nguyen
Oleon GmbH
Industriestr. 10
46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany
huyhoang.nguyen@oleon.com
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Tobias Nitsche
Karlsruher Institut of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
tobiasnitsche@aol.com
Stefan Oelmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
stefan-oelmann@versanet.de
Dr. Dominik Ohlmann
BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH
Henkelstr. 67
40589 Düsseldorf, Germany
dominik.ohlmann@basf.com
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Musa Özcan
Selcuk University
Selcuklu 1
42031 Konya, Turkey
mozcan@selcuk.edu.tr
An Philippaerts
K. U. Leuven
Kasteelpark Arenberg 23
3001 Heverlee, Belgium
an.philippaerts@biw.kuleuven.be
Dr. Fernando Portela Cabillo
Freundenberg Forschungsdienste
Hoehnerweg 2-4
69469 Weinheim, Germany
fernando.portelacubillo@freundenberg.de
Dr. Yann M. Raoul
SIA
Rue de Monceau CS 60003 11
75378 Paris, Cedex 08, France
y.raoul@prolea.com
Prof. Dr. Herbert Riepl
Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
Schulgasse 16
94315 Straubing, Germany
r.karl@wz-straubing.de
Prof. Dr. Yunus Robiah
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Institute od Advanced Technology UPM
43400 Selangor, Malaysia
robiah@eng.upm.edu.my
Philipp Roesle
Universität Konstanz
Universitätsstraße 10
78457 Konstanz, Germany
Philipp.Roesle@uni-konstanz.de
Dr. Sophie M. Sambou
Novance
Rue les Rives de l’Oise
BP 60206 Compiegne Cedex, France
s.sambou@novance.com
Prof. Dr. Hans J. Schäfer
University
Organisch-Chemisches Institut
Correns-Str. 40
48149 Münster, Germany
schafeh@uni-muenster.de
Dr. Benjamin Schäffner
Evonik Industries AG
Paul-Baumann-Str. 1
45772 Marl, Germany
benjamin.schaeffner@evonik.com
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schörken
FH Köln
Campus Leverkusen
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee 1
51368 Leverkusen, Germany
ulrich.schoerken@fh-koeln.de
Alexander Schenzel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
schenzel.alexander@gmx.de
Dr. Christof Schmitz
Freundenberg Forschungsdienste
Hoehnerweg 2-4
69469 Weinheim, Germany
christof.schmitz@freudenberg.de
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Ansgar Sehlinger
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
ansgar.sehlinger@gmail.com
Stephanie Seidel
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
Gaußstr. 20
42119 Wuppertal, Germany
stephanie.seidel@uni-wuppertal.de
Julian R. Silverman
City College of New York
609 W 135 th Street 20
10031 New York, United States
jsilverman@gc.cuny.edu
Prof. Dr. Snezana Sinadinovic-Fiser
University of Novi Sad
Faculty of Technology
Bul. Cara Lazara 1
21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
ssfiser@uns.ac.rs
Susanne Solleder
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
susanne.solleder@student.kit.edu
Dr. Claudia Stoer
BASF Personal Care and Nutrition GmbH
Henkelstr. 67
40589 Düsseldorf, Germany
claudia.stoer@basf.com
Alexander Studentschnig
Karl-Franzens University Graz
Institute of Organic/Bioorganic Chemistry
Heinrichstr. 28/II
8010 Graz, Austria
alexander.studentschnig@uni-graz.at
Prof. Dr. Christoph Syldatk
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Technical Biology
Egnler-Bunte-Ring
76135 Karlsruhe, Germany
christoph.syldatk@kit.edu
Dr. Oguz Türünc
Ghent University
Department of Organic Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry Research Group
Krijgslaan 281
9000 Ghent, Belgium
turunc.oguz@gmail.com
Yushin Takahashi
Kao Chemicals GmbH
Kupferstr. 1
46446 Emmerich, Germany
yushin.takahashi@kaochemicals.de
Elke Theeuwes
Ecover Co-ordination Center NV
Steenovenstraat 1A
2390 Malle, Belgium
theeuwes.elke@ecover.com
Dr. Cristina Tiozzo
CNR-ISTM
Via Venezian 21
20133 Milan, Italy
c.tiozzo@istm.cnr.it
Peter J. Tollington
Cargill BV
Jan van Galenstraat 4
3115 JG Schiedam, Netherlands
peter_tollington@cargill.com
Maike Unverferth
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
maike.unverferth@kit.edu
Richard Vendamme
Nitto Europe N.V.
Eikelaartsraat 22
3600 Genk, Belgium
richard.vendamme@neu.fr
Dr. Pierre Villeneuve
CIRAD
2 Place Viala 2
34060 Montpellier, France
villeneuve@cirad.fr
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Hanna Wagner
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
hannawagner91@gmx.de
Sarah Wald
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
sarah.wald@student.kit.edu
Matthias Winkler
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Institute of Organic Chemistry
Fritz-Haber-Weg 6
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
svm-winkler@t-online.de
Stefanie Wolf
Clariant Produkte GmbH
Ludwig-Hermann-Str. 100
86368 Gersthofen, Germany
stefanie1.wolf@clariant.com
Motonori Yamamoto
BASF SE
GMT/ B-B001
Carl-Bosch Str. 38
67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany
montori.yamamoto@basf.com
Dr. Aalbert Zwijnenburg
Johnson Matthey Chemicals GmbH
Wardstr. 17
46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany
bart.zwijenburg@matthey.com
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